Able v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 654
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiffs raise constitutional questions and irreparable injury [would] occur.”
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.