Lovell v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 560 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Roberts v. City of Troy (1985), Robert Demallory v. Timothy Cullen, Nos. 87-1492, 87-1493 (1988)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Procunier v. Martinez · Hutto v. Finney · City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, Inc. · United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All it takes to make the cause of action for relief by injunction is a real threat of future violation or a contemporary violation of a nature likely to continue or recur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he determination whether circumstances warrant injunctive relief lies in the discretion of the trial court, and the burden of persuasion lies with the moving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile not necessary as a matter of law, a showing of past violations may be crucial in practice to a suit for injunctive relief.”
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.