Barilla v. Ervin’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 1514 · 1989
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Miller National Labor Relations Board v. California Pacific Medical Center (1994), Gates
32 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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 Roe v. Wade · Sosna v. Iowa · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Dunn v. Blumstein · Honig v. Doe
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be divested of its obligation to consider the issue of mootness on the ground that the timing or manner in which a party has raised the issue is somehow procedurally improper”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition yet evading review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need only show that it is reasonable to expect that [it] will engage in conduct that will once again give rise to the assertedly moot dispute; [it] need not show that there is a 'demonstrated probability' that the dispute will recur.”
2 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.