Arnold v. Bl Intermediate Unit 17’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lester v. Gilhool (1990), Stehney v. Perry (1996)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. United States · County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subject to suit as 'local agencies' under the Pennsylvania Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[TJhis argument founders on the precedential shoals that support the enforcement of a federal judgment even where state law bars the seizure of funds or the payment of a judgment without legislative appropriation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Appellant's] Rule 19 claim is ... barred by the equitable principle of laches here, where [appellant] itself failed to join the [indispensable party] despite ample opportunity.”
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.