Walker v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 68 · 1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2022
9 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. · Tisdale v. United States · Crist v. Crist · Reserve Mining Co. v. United States · Chicago Stadium Corp. v. Scallen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ruling on a request for an injunction pending appeal, the court must engage in the same inquiry as when it reviews the grant or denial of a preliminary injunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has raised a substantial question and the equities are otherwise strongly in his favor, the showing of success on the merits can be less”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.