Albertson v. Millard, Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 36 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Dombrowski v. Pfister (1965), Coleman v. Alabama (1970)
74 federal appellate · 36 district · 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 Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · American Federation of Labor v. Watson · Albertson v. Millard
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Interpretation of state legislation is primarily the function of state authorities, judicial and administrative. The construction given to a state statute by the state courts is binding upon federal courts. There has been no interpretation of this statute by the state courts. The absence of such construction stems from the fact this action in federal court was commenced only five days after the statute became law. “There is pending in the Circuit Court for Wayne County, Michigan, a bill seeking a declaratory judgment that the Act is unconstitutional, both on federal and state grounds. That action is being held in abeyance pending our mandate and decision in this case. “We deem it appropriate in this case that the state courts construe this statute before the District Court further considers the action. See Rescue Army v. Municipal Court, 1947, 331 U.S. 549 , 67 S.Ct. 1409 , 91 L.Ed. 1666 ; American Federation of Labor v. Watson, 1946, 327 U.S. 582 , 66 S.Ct. 761 , 90 L.Ed. 873 ; and Spector Motor Service v. McLaughlin, 1944, 323 U.S. 101 , 65 S.Ct. 152 , 89 L.Ed. 101 . “The judgment is vacated and the cause remanded to the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan with directions to vacate the restraining order it issued and to hold the proceedings in abeyance a reasonable time pending construction of the statute by the state courts either in pending litigation or other litigation which may be instituted.””
2 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.