Lynch v. Baxley’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 387 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Wilson v. Attaway (1985), 99 Wash. 2d 373 - Diamond v. Cross (1983)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Sosna v. Iowa · Kremens v. Bartley · Lynch v. Baxley · Johnson v. American Credit Co. of Georgia · Silva v. Vowell
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“431 U.S. at 135 , 97 S.Ct. at 1718 , 52 L.Ed.2d at 196 . 7 Here, as in Kremens, the contours of the class have been changed and the class truncated by intervening legislation. The motion for further relief attacks only new emergency detention provisions of the statute, not the general commitment provisions. The class of persons on whom these new emergency detention provisions would operate is a narrower group than the original class certified. Also, as in Kremens, the claims of this narrower class remain”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynch v. Baxley“[e]fficient judicial administration weighs in favor of allowing an opportunity for a new and proper class representative to enter the case and litigate the interests of the subclass.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under these circumstances we find that the district court erred in dismissing the case without giving members of the original class with live claims an opportunity to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynch v. Baxley
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.