Dennison v. City of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 694 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably W. R. Grace & Co. v. Local Union 759, International Union of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers (1983), Martin v. Wilks (1989)
28 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Houltin v. United States · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Ryan v. United States · Addington v. Texas
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that a consent decree is not subject to collateral attack.”
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.