Bloomenthal v. Lavelle’s Empirical Analysis
614 F.2d 1139 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2004
6 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Bullock v. Carter · Lombard v. Marcera · Robert Briscoe v. Stanley T. Kusper, Jr. · Raymond E. Trafelet v. James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois · Trafelet v. Thompson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must demonstrate intentional or purposeful discrimination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David v. Lane
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.