Friedman v. Younger’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
October 1983
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Andrews v. United States · Hoffman v. Halden · United States v. Acme Process Equipment 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that in an action for damages against public officials under the Civil Rights Act, the plaintiff must allege highly specific facts to defeat a Motion to Dismiss. Agnew v. City of Compton, (CA Cal. 1956) 239 F.2d 226 , cert. denied 353 U.S. 959 , 77 S.Ct. 868 , 1 L.Ed.2d 910 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. Larson
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.