Sweeney v. Bane’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 1384 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Heideman v. South Salt Lake City (2003), Rodriguez v. Debuono (1999)
16 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396O (§ 1916 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Plaza Health Laboratories, Inc. v. Perales · Resolution Trust Corp. v. Elman · Eng v. Smith
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Second Circuit has held, and we agree, that ‘[wjhere ... a preliminary injunction seeks to stay governmental action taken in the public interest pursuant to a statutory or regulatory scheme, the less rigorous fair-ground-for-litigation standard should not be applied.’”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) irreparable harm and (b) either (1) likelihood of success on the merits or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting preliminary relief.”
2 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.