Goff v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 518 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Bell (1997), Watkins Inc. v. Lewis (2003)
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on O'Shea v. Littleton · Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. · Rogers v. Scurr · Modern Computer Systems Inc v. Modern Banking Systems Inc
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the threat of irreparable harm to the movant; (2) the state of balance between this harm and the injury that granting the injunction will inflict on other parties litigant; (3) the probability that movant will succeed on the merits; and (4) the public interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review a district court's grant or denial of preliminary injunctive relief for an abuse of discretion or misplaced reliance on an erroneous legal principle.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“situation is ripe for injunctive relief when "either a constitutional violation has already occurred or the threat of such a violation is both real and immediate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.