Yount v. Millington’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Wagner v. AGW CONSULTANTS (2005), Dunn v. McFeeley (1999)
4 district · 34 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Franks v. Delaware · Stanley v. Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ijssuing a declaratory judgment would support an award of attorney’s fees against [the judge] under § 1988. This is an ‘end run’ around a defendant’s immunity. It is appropriate that we recognize that reality in determining whether declaratory relief is warranted. We should be hesitant to inhibit state judges from exercising the discretion that comes with their job by imposing costs solely to protect against a hypothetical risk of future harm. The practical concerns, combined with concerns of equity, comity, and federalism, tip the balance decisively in favor of restraint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Lally“[W]hen a child's safety is threatened, that is a sufficient basis to justify postponing the parent's hearing until after the child has been taken into protective custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Esther
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.