American Trial Lawyers Association New Jersey Branch v. New Jersey Supreme Court’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 27 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Gonzalez v. Automatic Employees Credit Union (1974)
85 federal appellate · 27 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Zwickler v. Koota · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Lake Carriers' Association v. A Macmullan · Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a dismissal on grounds of abstention so as to permit a state court to pass on an issue of state law must not be with prejudice. The proper course is for the District Court to retain jurisdiction pending the proceedings in the state courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nivens v. Gilchrist“'and those persons authorized by that court to practice law in the state ... is an extremely delicate one'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not ... involve the abdication of federal jurisdiction, but only the postponement of its exercise”
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.