Armstead v. Pingree’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Fuller v. Becker & Poliakoff (2000), 694 F. Supp. 864 - Haitian Refugee Center, Inc. v. Nelson (1988)
2 federal appellate · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Prerequisites to a Class Action. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4). the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hose persons who ... were residing at [NEFSH] on February 28, 1984, and all future residents....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstead v. Coler
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.