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800 F.3d 559 · 2015

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
January 2025
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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Applies 50 U.S.C. § 1861 (§ 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) · 50 U.S.C. § 1881a

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Munaf v. Geren · Clapper v. Amnesty International USA

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he 'merits' on which plaintiff must show a likelihood of success encompass not only substantive theories but also establishment of jurisdiction.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “affirmative burden of showing a likelihood of success on the merits ... necessarily includes a likelihood of the court's reaching the merits, which in turn depends on a likelihood that plaintiff has standing.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a substantial likelihood of success on the merits.”
    2 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.