Lelsz v. Kavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 1243 · 1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Louis Kasper v. Board Of Election Commissioners Of The City Of Chicago (1987), Griffith v. Johnston (1990)
35 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Rhodes v. Chapman · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must fall back on its inherent jurisdiction”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal court is not necessarily barred from entering a consent decree merely because the decree provides broader relief than the court could have awarded after a trial,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a federal court remedy unfounded in federal law intrudes into the governance of matters otherwise presided over by the states, no federal right has been vindicated.”
3 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.