Kennedy v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1220 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department (1995), 37612 Memorial Hospital of Iowa County Inc United States Department of Health and Human Services (1988)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1480 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Powell v. McCormack · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable expectation that [the State] will be subjected to the same action again.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephenson v. Brady
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.