Garvin ex rel. Link v. Rosenau’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 233 · 1972
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 138 - Braxton v. Municipal Court (1973), Porter v. Jones (2003)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question may be plainly unsubstantial, either because it is ‘obviously without merit’ or because ‘its unsoundness so clearly results from the previous decisions of this court as to foreclose the subject and leave no room for the inference that the question sought to be raised can be the subject of controversy.’ [citations omitted].””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere fact that a constitutional decision conceivably could be avoided or that federal-state friction might arise does not automatically justify resort to the doctrine [of abstention].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“force the plaintiff who has commenced a federal action to suffer the delay of state court proceedings might itself effect the impermissible chilling of the very constitutional right he seeks to protect”
3 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.