Horn & Hardart Co. v. National Rail Passenger Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 546 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably GNB Battery Technologies, Inc. v. Gould, Inc. (1995), Clark v. Superior Court for the District of Columbia (1990)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 2202
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Costello v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Further necessary or proper relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree may be granted, after reasonable notice and hearing, against any adverse party whose rights have been determined by such judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'further relief' provisions of both state and federal declaratory judgment statutes clearly anticipate ancillary or subsequent coercion to make an original declaratory judgment effective.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'merely carries out the principle that every court, with few exceptions, has inherent power to enforce its decrees and to make such orders as may be necessary to render them effective.'”
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.