Simmons v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 321 · 1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Snowden v. Hughes · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Burford-type abstention, where the federal court defers to avoid interference with state authorities, dismissal of the aetion, rather than retention of jurisdiction pending a state determination, is normally appropriate. If the state court to which deference is thus shown prejudices any federal rights of the parties, this can be redressed by review of the state decision in the United States Supreme Court. (footnote omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without a showing of systematic exclusion on the basis of race or some other ground forbidden by national policy”;”
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.