Kinney v. Lenon’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 596 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1998
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Gault · Pierson v. Ray · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would clearly be at odds with the principles of comity and federalism which underlie Younger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henkel v. Bradshaw“the interests of the state involved are at least of equal gravity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henkel v. Bradshaw“in the same position as was Harris in Younger v. Harris”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Freeman
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.