Younger v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 84 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 601 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973)
222 federal appellate · 84 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Johnson v. Avery · Alabama State Teachers Association v. Alabama Public School and College Authority · Townsend v. Swank
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.