Classen v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Lyons v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Western Waste Service Systems v. Universal Waste Control · MacH-tronics, Incorporated v. Zirpoli · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 92,849 Ernest Klein v. Walston & Co., 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] final decision in the state court may be dispositive of the federal claims. Allowing both suits to proceed would ‘occupy the energies of two courts at the same time’ with identical tasks, [citations omitted] Faced with this prospect of duplicating the efforts of a state court, it is appropriate for a federal court to exercise its power to abstain. Id. at 1244-45 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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