Dilley v. Gunn’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 1365 · 1995
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Hilao v. Estate of Marcos (1996), National Audubon Society, Inc. v. Davis (2002)
72 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Roe v. Wade · Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith · Sanders v. United States
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues not raised in the opening brief usually are deemed waived.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arcon/pacific Ltd., a Limited Partnership, by and Through Arcon, Inc., a Corporation, General Partner Arcon, Inc., a Corporation Individually, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants v. Estate of Robert S. Coit Estate of Benjamin Coit Michael Coit Harold Pink, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees. Arcon/pacific Ltd., a Limited Partnership, by and Through Arcon, Inc., a Corporation, General Partner Arcon, Inc., a Corporation Individually, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Estate of Robert S. Coit Estate of Benjamin Coit Michael Coit Harold Pink, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants · Max Gatica-Carreon v. Immigration and Naturalization Service“If the district court concludes that Dilley's transfer from Calipatria occurred 'by happenstance,' then automatic vacatur is appropriate under Munsingwear . If, however, the district court finds that the defendants played a role in Dilley's transfer and that the transfer was related to the pendency of this appeal, then Ringsby applies to this case and the district court must then decide whether to vacate the injunction in light of 'the consequences and attendant hardships of dismissal or refusal to dismiss’ and the 'competing values of finality of judgment and right to relitigation of unreviewed disputes.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The established practice of the Court in dealing with a civil case from a court in the federal system which has become moot while on its way here or pending our decision on the merits is to reverse or vacate the judgment below and remand with a direction to dismiss.”
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.