Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 451 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Forman v. Korean Air Lines Co. (1996), City of Bessemer v. McClain (2006)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Addington v. Texas · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'cy pres' is derived from the Norman French expression cy pres comme possible , which means 'as near as possible.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When it becomes impossible to carry out the charitable gift as the testator intended, the doctrine allows the next best use of the funds to satisfy the testator's intent as near as possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“originated in trusts-and-estates law as a rule of construction used to preserve testamentary charitable gifts that otherwise would fail.”
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.