Pugach v. Dollinger’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 10 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Mapp v. Ohio (1961), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983)
119 federal appellate · 10 district · 20 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Nardone v. United States · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that § 605 applies only to the exclusion in federal court proceedings of evidence obtained and sought to be divulged in violation thereof; it does not exclude such evidence in state court proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Williams v. Ball“The strongest expression of that reluctance is found in the general prohibition of federal injunctions `to stay proceedings in a State court.' 28 U.S.C. § 2283.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Goss v. Illinois
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.