Hendrix v. Poonai’s Empirical Analysis
662 F.2d 719 · 1981
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lowe v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, A Division of Litton Systems, Inc. (1984), Cone Corporation Ch v. Florida Department of Transportation G (1991)
13 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Parker v. Brown · United Mine Workers v. Pennington
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.
“A ‘controversy’ in this sense must be one that is appropriate for judicial determination____ A justiciable controversy is thus distinguished from a difference or dispute of a hypothetical or abstract character; from one that is academic or moot. ... The controversy must be definite and concrete, touching the legal relations of parties having adverse legal interests ____ It must be a real and substantial controversy admitting of specific relief through a decree of a conclusive character, as distinguished from an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts____ Where there is such a concrete case admitting of an immediate and definite determination of the legal rights of the parties in an adversary proceeding upon the facts alleged, the judicial function may be appropriately exercised although the adjudication of the rights of the litigants may not require the award of process or the payment of damages.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interests, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the difference between an abstract question and a 'controversy' contemplated by the Declaratory Judgment act is necessarily one of degree....”
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.