Sample v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 1335 · 1985
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Smith v. City of Fontana (1987), Coverdell v. Department of Social & Health Services (1987)
128 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 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. § 1333 · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Warth v. Seldin · Roe v. Wade · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Cort v. Ash
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issues are no longer live or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A case is 'capable of repetition' only when there is a 'reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subjected to the same action again.'”
9 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.