Donovan v. City of Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
256 federal appellate · 54 district · 149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 772 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976)
256 federal appellate · 54 district · 149 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Princess Lida of Thurn & Taxis v. Thompson · Simon v. Southern Railway Co. · Cole v. Cunningham
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 772 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“old and well-established judicially declared rule that state courts are completely without power to restrain federal-court proceedings in in personam actions”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'filing or instituting . . . any further litigation, law suits or actions in any court, the purpose of which is to contest the validity of the airport revenue bonds . . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question presented here is whether a state court can validly enjoin a person from prosecuting an action in personam in a district or appellate court of the United States which has jurisdiction both of the parties and of the subject matter. Supra at 408, 84 S.Ct. at 1580 .”
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.