Jordan v. Sosa’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.3d 1012 · 2011
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Awad v. Ziriax (2012), American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2013)
29 federal appellate · 13 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1791 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 530C
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Haines v. Kerner · Roe v. Wade · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides that although there may be an actual and justiciable controversy at the time the litigation is commenced, once that controversy ceases to exist, the federal court must dismiss the action for want of jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. Osborn · Koontz v. Watson“[i]t is the parties, not the court, who are positioned to remain abreast of external factors that may impact their case; this is of particular importance where, as here, those factors directly pertain to this court's substantive inquiry. We look to the parties to inform us of such developments, and we should be assured that they will do so diligently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Similarly, in the context of an action for declaratory relief, a plaintiff must be seeking more than a retrospective opinion that he was wrongly harmed by the defendant.'”
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.