Standard Alaska Production Co. v. Schaible’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 624 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Bettencourt v. Board of Registration in Medicine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1990), US West Communications v. MFS Intelenet, Inc. (1999)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim is fit for decision if the issues raised are primarily legal, do not require further factual development, and the challenged action is final.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fitness of the issues for judicial decision and the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.”
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.