Dunn v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 555 · 1986
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Hibbs Director Arizona Department of Revenue v. Winn et al. (2004), Martin v. Wilks (1989)
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Papasan v. Allain · W. R. Grace & Co. v. Local Union 759, International Union of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Milliken v. Bradley · Carson v. American Brands, Inc.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he text of [the Act] does not suggest that federal courts should tread lightly in issuing orders that might allow local governments to raise additional taxes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winn v. Killian · Winn v. Killian“any federal litigation touching on the subject of state taxes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winn v. Killian · Winn v. Killian“Because a consent decree's force comes from agreement rather than positive law, the decree depends on the parties' authority to give assent.... Some rules of law are designed to limit the authority of public officeholders, to make them return to other branches of government or to the voters for permission to engage in certain acts. They may chafe at these restraints and seek to evade them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.