No. 87-3117’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2025
2 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
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · United States v. New York Telephone Co. · Gagnon v. United States · Gates v. Collier · John T. Fackelman v. Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Included in a district court’s power to administer its decrees is the power to construe and interpret the language of the original order.”). In stating that it would award U.S. Steel”
3 later decisions 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.