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60 F.3d 518 · 1995

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
February 2017
most recently cited

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 ·

220199520002010decided

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. “(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
  2. “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
  3. “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.