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700 F.2d 635 · 1983

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
May 2017
most recently cited

24 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1986), Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Township of Lacey (1985)

24 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 Roe v. Wade · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Benton v. Maryland · Flast v. Cohen · Weinstein v. Bradford

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The case must be viable at all stages of the litigation; it is not sufficient that the controversy was live only at its inception.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a] controversy is not capable of repetition if there is only 'a mere physical or theoretical possibility' of recurrence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to decide questions which have become moot by reason of intervening events.”
    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.