Farris v. Seabrook’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.3d 858 · 2012
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission · McConnell United States Senator et al. v. Federal Election Commission et al. · Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have also articulated an alternate formulation of the Winter test, under which serious questions going to the merits and a balance of hardships that tips sharply towards the plaintiff can support issuance of a preliminary injunction, so long as the plaintiff also shows that there is a likelihood of irreparable injury and that the injunction is in the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessarily abuses its discretion when it bases its decision on an erroneous legal standard or on clearly erroneous findings of fact.”
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.