Dombrowski v. Pfister’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2385 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 50 U.S.C. § 781 · 50 U.S.C. § 841 (Communist Control Act of 1954)
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Baker v. Carr · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot, and in alarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insiduously the [State] governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.” [Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane (1821)]. Dombrowski v. Pfister (1964), 227 F. Supp. 556 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Levitt
How this case has been treated — in progress
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