Thournir v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 1461 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Koerpel v. Heckler (1986), Ten Mile Industrial Park v. Western Plains Service Corp. (1987)
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · University of Texas v. Camenisch · Storer v. Brown · Mills v. Green
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally an appeal should be dismissed as moot when events occur that prevent the appellate court from granting any effective relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[t]his case presents an important and difficult question of constitutional law: whether Colorado imposes an unconstitutional qualification for eligibility to run for office in the United States Congress. As the trial court aptly noted, the law pertinent to the merits is anything but settled; indeed, the case presents issues of a most delicate and subtle nature. These thornier issues should not be determined without thorough preparation and deliberation by the parties and the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thournir v. Meyer“[W]here an act sought to be enjoined has occurred, an appeal of a district court order denying an injunction is moot.”
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.