Bates v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 1424 · 1990
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Co. v. River Valley Cookies, Ltd. (1992), Board of Education of Oak Park & River Forest High School District 200 v. Illinois State Board of Education (1996)
38 federal appellate · 1 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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · United States v. Beebe · Azeez v. Fairman · Crowley Cutlery Company v. United States of America and Commissioner of Customs of the United States Customs Service · Morgan v. South Bend Community School Corp.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a judge does not record an injunction or declaratory judgment on a separate document, the defendant is under no judicial compulsion. * * * Because [defendant] is not under an enforceable constraint, there is nothing before us on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall describe in reasonable detail, and not by reference to the complaint or other document, the act or acts sought to be restrained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the ground that the appellant does not seek relief from any provisions of the orders from which the appeals have been taken.”
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.