Diaz v. Stathis’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2008
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Juidice v. Vail
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here presented with a motion to dismiss filed by some defendants to an action, the court, where appropriate, may consider the sufficiency of the complaint as against all defendants.”
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.