Baldwin-United Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 328 · 1985
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably New York State National Organization for Women v. Terry (1989), Brown v. Alabama Department of Transportation (2010)
84 federal appellate · 20 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 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1407 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Dombrowski v. Pfister
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the states or others could derivatively assert the same claims on behalf of the same class members or members of it, there could be no certainty about the finality of any federal settlement. . . . The effect would be to threaten to reopen the settlement. . . .”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enjoin actions in state court where necessary to prevent relitigation of an existing federal judgment”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. Martin · To v. Rubin
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.