Holt v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2015
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Zwickler v. Koota
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 power of a federal court to refrain from deciding an action brought under the Civil Rights Act is a closely restricted one; in fact, it is widely recognized that eases involving questions of civil rights are the least likely candidates for abstention. See Wright v. McMann, 2nd Cir., 387 F.2d 519 (1967).” (Emphasis added) Jones v. Wittenberg, 323 F.Supp. 93 (D.C.Ohio 1971); opinion supplemented 330 F.Supp. 707 (D.C.), affirmed 456 F.2d 854 (6 Cir.).”
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.