Patton v. Dole’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 24 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc. (1990), Balderman v. United States Veterans Administration (1989)
12 federal appellate · 13 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 10 U.S.C. § 6959 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Dalehite v. United States · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Schweiker v. Hansen · Herrmann v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) irreparable harm and (b) either (1) likelihood of success on the merits or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting the preliminary relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]eversal of an order denying a preliminary injunction is customarily accompanied by a directive that the district court conduct a new hearing on remand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Patton's prospect of involuntary naval service clearly outweighs defendants' temporary loss of the services of one able-bodied seaman,”
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.