Swan v. Stoneman’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 97 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Pushkin v. Regents of the University of Colorado (1981), Aguilar v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security (2007)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Monroe v. Pape · Califano v. Sanders · Gerstein v. Pugh · Steffel 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“coextensive with the merits of the plaintiff's constitutional claim,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jose P. v. Gordon M. Ambach, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Frank J. MacChiarola Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. United Cerebral Palsy of N.Y.C., Inc. v. Board of Education, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Gordon M. Ambach, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Dyrcia S. v. Board of Education, New York State Education Department · Jose P. v. Ambach“To the extent that appellants' argument is that Swan's death does not moot the class claim if one of the proposed intervenors can be substituted as a named plaintiff, we agree.”
1 later decision 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.