Lewis v. Tully’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2007
1 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 Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it implicit in ‘the capable of repetition, yet evading review’ doctrine that the courts are to apply the ‘personal stake' requirement flexibly, particularly in the context of a class action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“new persons with 'live' claims for injunctive relief ... are constantly entering the category of those currently subject to defendants' alleged practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constant existence of a class of persons suffering from the deprivation is certain.”
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.