Flynt v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 134 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Clarke v. United States (1990), City of Houston Texas v. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1994)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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. § 292
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Weinstein v. Bradford · Murphy v. Hunt · City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear the path for future relitigation of the issues raised.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The military action that precipitated the temporary press ban was terminated by December 15, 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conyers v. Reagan
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.