Cramer v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 1020 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Town of Southold v. Town of East Hampton (2007), Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now v. Fowler (1999)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 49 U.S.C. § 1301
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Minor restrictions on travel simply do not amount to the denial of a fundamental right that can be upheld only if the Government has a compelling justification.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether [his] complaint raises [more than] abstract questions amounting to generalized grievances which are more appropriately resolved by the legislative branches”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fairly can be traced to the challenged action”
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.