Kucharek v. Hanaway’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 513 · 1990
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992), Virginia v. Black (2003)
29 federal appellate · 4 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 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Miller v. California · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n important difference between interpretation of a state statute by a federal court and by a state court is that only the latter interpretation is authoritative. If the district judge [reads the state’s] statute so narrowly as to obviate all constitutional questions, it would still be possible for the state to prosecute people for violating the statute as broadly construed, because the enforcement of the statute would not have been enjoined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n important difference between the interpretation of a state statute by a federal court and by a state court is that only the latter interpretation is authoritative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“change his mind ... and he may be replaced in office”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.