Leroy Armstrong v. Virginia D. Armstrong, Leroy Armstrong v. Virginia D. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Fay v. South Colonie Central School District (1986), Malachowski v. City of Keene (1986)
35 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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
Relies on Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Lewis S. Rosenstiel · Buechold v. Ortiz · 283 F. Supp. 797 - Spindel v. Spindel
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it has been held that a federal court — even where it has jurisdiction — may abstain for reasons of comity and common sense from cases better handled by the state courts having authority over matrimonial and family matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no reason to proliferate the number of available forums for litigation rooted in the duties of former spouses to one another and to their family____ [I]t would seem unwise for a federal court to issue orders which, because of res judicata or estoppel, might severely restrict the ability of the appropriate state court to reach an equitable result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beliveau v. Beliveau“It is beyond the realm of reasonable belief that, in these days of congested dockets, Congress would wish the federal courts to seek to regain territory, even if the cession of 1859 [in Barber v. Barber, 62 U.S. (21 How.) 582 , 16 L.Ed. 226 (1859)] was unjustified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gill v. Gill
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.