Toucey v. New York Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 118 · 1941
Citation profile
432 federal appellate · 88 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 904 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), O'Shea v. Littleton (1974)
432 federal appellate · 88 district · 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedToucey v. New York Life Ins. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Stoll v. Gottlieb
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 904 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The writ of injunction shall not be granted by any court of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a State, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]oose language and a sporadic, ill-considered decision”
4 later decisions 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.