James A. Wright v. Maria Pappas’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.3d 635 · 2001
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary · Raleigh v. Illinois Department of Revenue · California v. Grace Brethren Church · Hager v. City of West Peoria · Folio v. The City of Clarksburg West Virginia
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lien sale is a mode of tax collection; and so an action to enjoin it, or declare it illegal, or rescind it, or perhaps even just obtain damages on the ground of its illegality, would be barred by the [TIA] or, in the case of the damages suit, by the free-standing principle of comity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Act is a gesture of comity toward states; recognizing the centrality of tax collection to the operation of government, the Act prevents taxpayers from running to federal court to stymie the collection of state taxes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the Act from being completely undone,”
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.