Cafano v. Cimmino’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Apart from the inherent difficulties in defining the proper standards against which such claims might be measured, and the significant problems of proving non-compliance in individual cases, such a major continuing intrusion of the equitable power of the federal courts into the daily conduct of state ... proceedings is in sharp conflict with the principles of equitable restraint which this Court has recognized....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Silbermann
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.