Deakins v. Monaghan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
432 federal appellate · 106 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,117 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Quackenbush California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co (1996), New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans (1989)
432 federal appellate · 106 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWilliams v. Red Bank Board of Education (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Allen v. McCurry
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc
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 1,117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the District Court has no discretion to dismiss rather than to stay claims for monetary relief that cannot be redressed in the state proceeding.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Article III of the Constitution limits federal courts to the adjudication of actual, ongoing controversies between litigants.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abdication of the obligation to decide cases can be justified under this doctrine only in exceptional circumstances where the order to the parties to repair to the State court would clearly serve an important countervailing interest.”
7 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.