Schlagler v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.3d 439 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Spargo v. New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct (2003), Diamond "D" Construction Corp. v. McGowan (2002)
9 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 Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · City of Houston v. Hill · Kugler v. Helfant · Brooks v. New Hampshire Supreme Court
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`we must review de novo the essentially legal determination of whether the requirements for abstention have been met.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under Younger[v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 , 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971),] and its progeny, a federal court should abstain from exercising jurisdiction where three factors are present: (1) there is an ongoing state criminal proceeding; (2) the claim raises important state interests; and (3) the state proceedings provide an adequate opportunity to raise the constitutional claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kern v. Clark“While [the Dupont Court] may have purported to declare [section 240.30] facially invalid, it is not entirely clear that it did so and in any event does not render invalid all prosecutions under the statute.”
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.