Spivey v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 1222 · 1981
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Prakash v. American University (1984), Penthouse International, Ltd. v. Meese (1991)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1364 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 31 U.S.C. § 715 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 300K
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sharply focused on a unique factual context”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“present `a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same actions again.'”
1 later decision 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.