Lamonica v. S. L. E., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably In the Matter of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., Inc., Debtor. Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, in the Matter of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., Inc., Debtor. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1986), Nissho-Iwai Co. v. Occidental Crude Sales, Inc. (1988)
22 federal appellate ·
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 Flast v. Cohen · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · North Carolina v. Rice · Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington. · Moore v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a dispute has ... evanesced because of changed circumstances, including the passage of time, it is considered moot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nos. 97-20138, 98-20001 · In the Matter of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., Inc., Debtor. Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, in the Matter of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., Inc., Debtor. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. United States Environmental Protection Agency“an on-going adversarial posture between the parties before the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient adversary interest to stimulate the parties to a full presentation of the facts and arguments.”
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.