Epp Md’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2025
3 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · United States v. Swift & Co. · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition yet evading review.”
1 later decision 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.