The Building And Construction Department v. Rockwell International Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1487 · 1993
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation (2010), Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Smith (1997)
42 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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 United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Powell v. McCormack · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attenuated that considerations of prudence and comity for coordinate branches of government counsel the court to stay its hand, and to withhold relief it has the power to grant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Constitutional mootness doctrine is grounded in the Article III requirement that federal courts [may] only decide actual, ongoing cases or controversies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In such cases a court may decline to grant declaratory or injunctive relief where it appears that a defendant, usually the government, has already changed or is in the process of changing its policies or where it appears that any repeat of the actions in question is otherwise highly unlikely.”
2 later decisions 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.