Hedges v. Obama’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.3d 170 · 2013
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4001 · 50 U.S.C. § 1541
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · Doe v. Bolton
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff have suffered an injury in fact — an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical, (2) the injury be fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant, and (3) it be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when fear of criminal prosecution under an allegedly unconstitutional statute is not imaginary or wholly speculative.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiffs repeatedly refer to the First Amendment overbreadth doctrine as it if were relevant to whether they have established Article III standing. It is not. ... [T]he overbreadth doctrine speaks to whose interests a plaintiff suffering Article III injury may.represent. It does not provide a reason to, find such injury where none is present -or imminently threatened in the first instance.”
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.