Augustin v. Mughal’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1215 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, Inc. (1984), Dunn v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1981)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · Aetna State Bank v. Alan Milton Altheimer, Administrator With the Will Annexed of the Estate of Milton L. Altheimer, Deceased · General Insurance Company of America v. Hercules Construction Company, a Corporation, Hercules Construction Company, a Corporation v. General Insurance Company of America · MacH-tronics, Incorporated v. Zirpoli · Page v. Hamilton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The abstention doctrine, under which a district court may decline to exercise its jurisdiction is an extraordinary and narrow exception to the court’s duty to adjudicate a controversy properly before it which may be invoked only in exceptional circumstances. 6”
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.