Lutes v. United States District Court for Western District of Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.2d 948 · 1962
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1991
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · Louisiana Power Light Company v. City of Thibodaux
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The possibility of a different result in the state cases from that in the federal cases creates no exceptional circumstance in which abstention will serve an important countervailing purpose.””
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.