Collins v. Romer’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1508 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Babbitt (1995), Beard v. Teska (1994)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Nowak v. Trezevant · Wagner v. United States Bankruptcy Court · Supre v. Ricketts · Foremaster v. City of St. George
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1)that [their] lawsuit is causally linked to securing the relief obtained and (2)that the defendant's conduct in response to the lawsuit was required by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the defendant’s conduct was required by law, i.e., not a wholly gratuitous response to an action that in itself was frivolous or groundless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beard v. Teska
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.