Leonard v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 838 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker (2001), Duncan v. Walker (2001)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rose v. Lundy
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the challenged action [is] in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same action again.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the core of [Milby's] claim, though cast in Sec. 1983 terms, is cognizable only in [the] habeas action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.'”
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.