Kitlutsisti’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2011
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Naacp Western Region v. City of Richmond Ae · United States v. Geophysical Corp. · Ringsby Truck Lines, Inc. v. Western Conference of Teamsters
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The established practice of the Court in dealing with a civil case from a court in the federal system which has become moot while on its way here or pending our decision on the merits is to reverse or vacate the judgment below and remand with a direction to dismiss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we should selectively vacate portions of a district court opinion”
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.