Withrow’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 federal appellate · 6 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 King v. Smith · United Families of America v. Kendrick · United Families of America v. Kendrick · International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 37 v. Boyd · California Architectural Building Products, Inc. v. Franciscan Ceramics, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is ... doubtless a point at which any failure of total compliance is truly de minimis , where the state has come to comply 'as strictly as is humanly possible.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Act itself imposes the burden; [an] injunction merely seeks to prevent the defendant[ ] from shirking [its] responsibilities under it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is ... doubtless a point at which any failure of total compliance is truly de minimis , where the state has come to comply 'as strictly as is humanly possible.' " Withrow , 942 F.2d at 1388 ; see also Haskins , 794 F.2d at 1277 ("As with any program of this size, a few inadvertent errors are inevitable, and we are confident that the district court will not exercise its equitable powers to hold the state in contempt for every minor, inadvertent infraction of the Act if the court is satisfied that the officials are complying with the Act as strictly as is humanly possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garnett v. Zeilinger
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.