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989 F.2d 1136 · 1993

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
2
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Mitsubishi International Corporation v. Cardinal Textile Sales Inc (1994), Schiavo Schindler v. Schiavo W

14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. · United States v. Jefferson County · United States v. Lambert · Lucero v. Operation Rescue of Birmingham

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[n]o attention is paid to the merits of the controversy beyond that necessary to determine the presence or absence of an abuse of discretion.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “(1) a substantial likelihood of prevailing on the merits; (2) an irreparable injury if the injunction does not issue; (3) a threatened injury to [the movant] that is greater than any damage the preliminary injunction would cause the [opposing party]; and (4) the absence of any adverse effect on the public interest in the injunction issues. Cafe 207, Inc. v. St. Johns County, 989 F.2d 1136, 1137 (11th Cir.1993).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Revette v. Int'l Ass'n of Bridge Works, 740 F.2d 892 , 893 (11th Cir.1984) (citation omitted). As we review the denial of the preliminary injunction,”
    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.