Keith v. Volpe’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1457 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Western Electric Co. (1990), Blair v. Shanahan (1994)
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. Swift & Co. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Armour & Co. · Garber v. United States · Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterpretation of a consent decree is a matter of law reviewed de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing less than a clear showing of grievous wrong evoked by new and unforeseen conditions should lead us to change what was decreed after years of litigation with the consent of all concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ E]ven in the absence of express authorization in the decree or request from the parties, the power to modify in appropriate circumstances is inherent in the equity jurisdiction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feeling v. Kelly
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.