Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 1197 · 1980
Citation profile
153 federal appellate · 73 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 401 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984), Sports Form, Inc. v. United Press International Inc. (1982)
153 federal appellate · 73 district · 2 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sierra Club v. Morton · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Sampson v. Murray
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 401 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this circuit, the moving party may meet its burden by demonstrating either (1) a combination of probable success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury or (2) that serious questions are raised and the balance of hardships tips sharply in its favor.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he temporary loss of income, ultimately to be recovered, does not usually constitute irreparable injury. * * * “The key word in this consideration is irreparable. Mere injuries, however substantial, in terms of money, time and energy necessarily expended * * * are not enough. The possibility that adequate compensatory or other corrective relief will be available at a later date, in the ordinary course of litigation, weighs heavily against a claim of irreparable harm.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“probability of success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury or that serious questions are raised and the balance of hardship tips sharply in its favor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.