770 F. Supp. 539 - Pratt v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2019
6 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. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review” exception to the mootness doctrine because the challenged State action was of limited duration and likely to recur, "given the fact that the state ha[d] not timely adopted a budget in five of the last eight years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review” exception to the mootness doctrine because the challenged State action was of limited duration and likely to recur,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“changes in either State or Federal law require automatic grant adjustments for classes of recipients,”
1 later decision 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.