Reetz v. Bozanich’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
349 federal appellate · 180 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,053 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986), Steffel v. Thompson (1974)
349 federal appellate · 180 district · 29 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 Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · Harman v. Forssenius
Cited together with Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · Askew v. Hargrave · Harman v. Forssenius · Wisconsin v. Constantineau
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 1,053 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proper exercise of federal jurisdiction requires that controversies involving unsettled questions of state law be decided in the state tribunals preliminary to a federal court’s consideration of the underlying federal constitutional questions. * * * That is especially desirable where the questions of state law are enmeshed with the federal questions.””
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only in narrowly limited `special circumstances.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'needless friction' between federal pronouncements and state policies.”
10 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.