Bertram A. Druker v. Thomas A. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 1272 · 1972
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Federman v. Empire Fire & Marine Insurance (1979)
29 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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 12 U.S.C. § 1715L (Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Harman v. Forssenius · Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The high costs attendant upon abstention in terms of delay and frustration of federal claims are matters of equity as well, and are appropriately weighed in the equitable balance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . . the mere mechanical possibility that a state court decision might make adjudication of the federal claim unnecessary does not itself make abstention appropriate.”
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.