In Re Donald Pearson et Als’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Horn (1994), In re Federal-Mogul Global, Inc. (2002)
18 federal appellate · 6 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 Haines v. Kerner · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · United States v. Swift & Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In institutional reform litigation, injunctions should not operate inviolate in perpetuity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Walsh · Eric L. v. HHS NH“[N]otwithstanding the parties silence or inertia, the district court is not doomed to some Sisyphean fate, bound forever to enforce and interpret a preexisting decree without ever occasionally pausing to question whether changing circumstances have rendered the decree unnecessary, outmoded, or even harmful to the public interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen . . . an injunction entered pursuant to a consent decree has ongoing effects, the issuing court retains authority to enforce it.”
3 later decisions 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.