Eng v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 80 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Innovative Health Systems Inc 1-3 v. City of White Plains Sj (1997), Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians v. Pierce (2001)
11 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1651 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Rizzo v. Goode · Dean v. Coughlin · Wali v. Coughlin
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party seeking preliminary injunctive relief must establish (a) that the injunction is necessary to prevent irreparable harm and (b) either that (i) it is likely to succeed on the merits of the underlying claim or (ii) there are sufficiently serious questions going to the merits of the claim as to make it a fair ground for litigation and that the balance of the hardships tips decidedly toward the movant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“need not show that success is an absolute certainty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a federal district court's powers are broad, appropriate consideration must be given to principles of federalism in determining the availability and scope of equitable relief....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwartz v. Dolan
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.