Free v. Landrieu’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 698 · 1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2021
3 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1437F · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Vitek v. Jones · Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it can be said with assurance that 'there is no reasonable expectation ...' that the alleged violation will recur, ... and, (2) interim relief or events have completely and irrevocably eradicated the effects of the alleged violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“time and money out of all proportion to the dollar amounts at stake”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an interpretation, not previously made, of the challenged [ruling]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.