Landi v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 710 · 1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2000
5 federal appellate ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York · Mitchum v. Foster · Pulliam v. Allen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... either a combination of probable success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury or that serious questions are raised and the balance of hardships tip sharply in his favor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal courts have traditionally been inhospitable forums for plaintiffs asserting federal question jurisdiction of possessory land claims . . . . [T]he grant of a land patent . . . carries with it no guarantee of continuing federal interest and certainly carries with it no indefinitely redeemable passport into federal court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwin Virgin Sr“it rests on the not insubstantial claim that federal law now protects, and has continuously protected from the time of the formation of the United States, possessory rights to tribal lands, wholly apart from the application of state law principles which normally and separately protect a valid right of possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Edwin Virgin Sr
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.