DIRECTV, Inc. v. Tolson’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.3d 119 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman · Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary · Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation v. New York State Liquor Authority
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the principle of comity reflects the recognition that states should be free from federal interference in the administration of their fiscal operations, we interpret the term 'tax' broadly for purposes of our jurisdictional inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The problem with this approach is that it permits the very evil that the comity principle is intended to avoid: intrusive federal litigation that threatens to compromise state tax systems.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) what entity imposes the charge; (2) what population is subject to the charge; and (3) what purposes are served by the use of the monies obtained by the charge.”
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.