Culbreath v. Dukakis’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 15 · 1980
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Williams v. Vukovich (1983), Public Citizen v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1988)
58 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · Hansberry v. Lee · Donaldson v. United States · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the basic requirement that the application to intervene be timely is to prevent last minute disruption of painstaking work by the parties and the court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determination of probability of success on the merits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider whether the intervention will unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the original parties.”
3 later decisions 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.