Lynch v. Baxley’s Empirical Analysis
744 F.2d 1452 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Church v. City of Huntsville (1994), Jones v. Blanas (2004)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Bell v. Wolfish · Baker v. Carr · Gault · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs must demonstrate a personal stake in the outcome in order to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues necessary for the proper resolution of constitutional questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]ast wrongs do constitute evidence bearing on whether there is a real and immediate threat of repeated injury which could be averted by the issuing of an injunction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ndividual standing requirements must be met by anyone attempting to represent [her] own interest or those of a class.”
3 later decisions 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.