Duran v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 756 · 1985
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail (1992), Metlyn Realty Corp. v. Esmark, Inc. (1985)
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Bell v. Wolfish · Procunier v. Martinez · Rhodes v. Chapman · Yakus v. United States
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A consent decree that regulates a public agency “is no mere contract, even though reference to contract principles may be usefulThis is not to say that the decree ought just be discarded .... No one will sign a consent decree if the other party is free to walk away from it. But in deciding whether to modify a decree the district judge cannot just appeal to the sanctity of contracts; he must consider the concrete impact of modification on both parties, and also on the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an equity decree affects other people besides the parties to it, the judge must take account of the interest of those people--the public interest--in his decision whether to grant or deny equitable relief.... This is true whether the judge is being asked to approve a decree ..., or interpret a decree ..., or, it seems evident, modify a decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the current crop of pre-trial detainees was not in the jail when the decree was signed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Davies
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.