Bland v. McHann’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 21 · 1972
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (1976), Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary (1981)
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Perez v. Ledesma · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Matthews v. Rodgers
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an explicit congressional limitation on the jurisdiction of the federal courts,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Taxpayers’ complaints that the Mississippi remedy is inadequate appear in reality to be an argument that a better remedy would be available in the federal courts. Neither the judicial decisions nor § 1341 requires that the state remedy be the best remedy available or even equal to or better than the remedy which might be available in the federal courts. Section 1341 merely requires that the state remedy be ‘plain, speedy and efficient.’”
8 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.