Thoms v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 4 U.S.C. § 3 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · United States v. O'Brien · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have no reason to believe defendants will continue to enforce Sec. 53-255 upon notice of this decision; accordingly, we forbear to enter an injunction restraining them from enforcing it. Declaratory judgment may, however, enter that [the statute] is unconstitutional . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thoms v. Heffernan“[b]ecause there is no prosecution pending against Thoms or the class he represents, Younger is inapplicable and imposes no bar to our consideration of the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Nemetz““. . .or publicly misuses, mutilates, tramples upon or otherwise defaces or defiles or puts indignity upon any of such flags . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delorme v. State
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.