Flynn v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 586 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Keado v. United States (1988), Philadelphia Reading Corporation v. United States (1991)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 1 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2008) · 26 U.S.C. § 6213 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1340
Relies on United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Enochs v. Williams Packing & Navigation Co. · Bob Jones University v. Simon · Rondeau v. Mosinee Paper Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant injunctive relief under specified conditions. Id. Combining Congress' use of the conditional with Romero-Barcelo, we held that relief was not mandatory simply because the statutory conditions were met, but instead lies within the discretion of the court. Id. Therefore, we found”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reason to cast off those principles that traditionally have informed the exercise of a court's broad equity powers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Waiver of Restrictions on Assessment and Collection of Deficiency in Tax and Acceptance of Overassessment.”
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.