636 F. Supp. 159 - Rivera v. Feinstein’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2010
1 federal appellate ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 529
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Jackson Dairy, Inc. v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. · Detroy v. American Guild of Variety Artists · Jack Kahn Music Co. v. Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. · Bell & Howell: Mamiya Co. v. Masel Supply Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) irreparable harm and (2) either (a) a probability of success on the merits or (b) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation, and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party seeking relief.”
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.