United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Beard v. Banks (2006), Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. v. Saban Entertainment, Inc. (1995)
3 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Elrod v. Burns · Hudson v. Palmer · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hewitt v. Helms
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we have held that an injunction should issue “only upon a clear showing that the moving party is entitled to the relief requested ...” or where “extreme or very serious damage will result” from a denial of preliminary relief.... In sum, we have shown “greater reluctance to issue a mandatory injunction than a prohibitory injunction.” ...”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... need not show that success is an absolute certainty. He need only make a showing that the probability of his prevailing is better than fifty percent. There may remain considerable room for doubt....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here exercise of the asserted right is not presumptively dangerous ... and where a prison has completely deprived an inmate of that right, then prison officials must show that ‘a particular restriction is necessary to further an important governmental interest, and that the limitations on freedoms occasioned by the restrictions are no greater than necessary to effectuate the governmental objective involved.’”
4 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.