Thornton v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 1380 · 1989
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably New Burnham Prairie Homes, Inc. v. Village of Burnham (1990), Easter House v. Felder (1990)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“analysis of the harm to the parties and the public from the grant or denial of the injunction and the actual likelihood of success on the merits. 18 Ping v. National Educ. Ass'n, 870 F.2d 1369 , 1371 (7th Cir.1989) (emphasis in original). 19 The standard that we apply to review the district court's determination is”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our review is limited to determining 'whether the judge exceeded the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances, not what we would have done if we had been in his shoes.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tailored to the various functions that the district court must perform in fulfillment of its responsibilities.”
3 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.