Douglas v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 1276 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Clarke v. United States (1990), Wagner v. Taylor (1987)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Fusari v. Steinberg · Doe v. Harris · Crowley v. Shultz
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A government lawyer in a civil action ... has the responsibility to seek justice and to develop a full and fair record, and he should not use his position or the economic power of the government to harass parties or to bring about unjust settlements or results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it can be said with assurance that 'there is no reasonable expectation ...' that the alleged violation will recur ... and interim relief or events have completely and irrevocably eradicated the effects of the alleged violation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Taylor“It is one thing to argue that a settlement does not moot a particular case; it is quite another to promote an advisory opinion by disguising a settlement in order to hide it from the court's consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.