Black Fire Fighters Association of Dallas v. City of Dallas Texas Black Fire Fighters Association of Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Jesus Munoz, Muñoz v. Orr (2000)
1 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
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Amoco Production Co. v. Village of Gambell · Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio · Berry Estates, Inc. v. Regan · Holland America Insurance v. Succession of Roy
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; (2) a substantial threat that plaintiff will suffer irreparable injury if the injunction is denied; (3) that the threatened injury outweighs any damage that the injunction might cause defendants; and (4) that the injunction will not disserve the public interest.”
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.