DeYoung v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.3d 1319 · 2011
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baze v. Rees · Davis v. United States · Sossamon v. Texas · Smith v. Gte Corporation Gte · Burgo v. General Dynamics Corp.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; (2) that the preliminary injunction is necessary to prevent irreparable injury; (3) that the threatened injury outweighs the harm the preliminary injunction would cause the other litigant; and (4) that the preliminary injunction would not be averse to the public interest.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must show that the disparate treatment is not rationally related to a legitimate government interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State will treat him disparately from other similarly situated persons.”
2 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.