In Re Richard Thornburgh et Als’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Pryor v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n (2002), Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Glickman (1996)
17 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [redressability prong of the standing] test assumes that a decision on the merits would be favorable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is entirely possible that some members of the class in this case could show that they took affirmative steps to file before May 4, 1988, thus, warranting a finding of constructive filing. If, for example, a[n] ... alien went to an INS office and was turned away on the basis of 8 C.F.R. § 245a.l(d), the alien’s action might have been “the only affirmative step a prospective petitioner could take”_ Consequently, that action might be considered “the constructive equivalent of filing a petition” for amnesty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“deprive[] a court of jurisdiction over cases in which the likelihood that the requested relief would remedy the plaintiff's injury is `only speculative.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.