Punnett v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 578 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (1983), Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Carbon County Coal Co. (1986)
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
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 California v. Arizona · Jaffee v. United States · Oburn v. Shapp · Continental Group, Inc. v. Amoco Chemicals Corp. · Delaware River Port Authority v. Transamerican Trailer Transport, 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The moving party on a motion for a preliminary injunction must generally show (1) a reasonable probability of ultimate success on the merits of the litigation and (2) that the movant will be irreparably injured pendente lite if relief is not granted. In addition, the district court ‘should take into account, when they are relevant (3) the possibility of harm to other interested persons from the grant or denial of the injunction and (4) the public interest.' [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[it] is not necessary that the moving party’s right to a final decision after trial be wholly without doubt; rather, the burden is on the party seeking relief to make a prima facie case showing a reasonable probability that it will prevail on the merits.””
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.