Consumer Advisory Board v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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

1. “The Supreme Court’s requirement of a rather precise statement to terminate consent decrees is not the whole story. In Dowell the Supreme Court has made clear that institutional reform decrees need not endure forever.... Rather, the district court has considerable discretion, especially after years of apparent compliance have passed, to conclude that the decree should be dissolved because it has achieved its purpose or no longer serves the public interest. That remedy—which can be invoked by a motion to terminate the 1978 consent decree—remains fully available to the state.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Consumer Advisory Board v. Glover · Alexander v. Britt

2. “pass through levels of disengagement as the decree moves toward achievement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brewster v. Dukakis

3. “[I]nstitutional reform decrees need not endure forever.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail v. Rufo