Conyers v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 1124 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Clark v. Brewer (1985), James v. United States Department of Health & Human Services (1987)
20 federal appellate · 12 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 Roe v. Wade · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · Powell v. McCormack
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the challenged activity is by its very nature short in duration, so that it could not, or probably would not, be able to be adjudicated while fully live.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the challenged action was in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there was a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same action again.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Article III case or controversy requirement is as applicable to declaratory judgments as it is to other forms of relief.”
2 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.