Squire v. Coughlan’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.3d 551 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2023
6 federal appellate ·
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 · Parratt v. Taylor · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Berger v. Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n · Fieger v. Thomas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abstention is appropriate “unless state law clearly bars the interposition of the constitutional claims.” Fieger, 74 F.3d at 745 (citations and quotation marks omitted). The plaintiff bears the burden of showing that state law barred presentation of his or her constitutional claims. Id. at 746 . Once this third and final requirement is met, abstention is appropriate “unless the plaintiff can show that one of the exceptions to Younger applies, such as bad faith, harassment, or flagrant unconstitutionality.” Id. at 750 (citation and quotation marks omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) there must be on-going state judicial proceedings; 2) those proceedings must implicate important state interests; and 3) there must be an adequate opportunity in the state proceedings to raise constitutional challenges. Squire v. Coughlan, 469 F.3d 551, 555 (6th Cir.2006) (quotation marks and citation omitted). If these prerequisites are satisfied and “so long as there is no showing of bad faith, harassment, or some other extraordinary circumstance that would make abstention inappropriate, the federal courts should abstain.” Id. (quoting Middlesex Cnty. Ethics Comm. v. Garden State Bar Ass’n, 457 U.S. 423, 435 [ 102 S.Ct. 2515 , 73 L.Ed.2d 116 ] (1982)).”
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.