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533 F.2d 21 · 1976

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
May 2007
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 11 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2007

8 federal appellate · 11 district ·

801976198019902000decided

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 Pierson v. Ray · Bullock v. United States · Angel v. Bullington · Reamer v. Beall · Grubb v. Public Utilities Commission

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[F]ederal courts do not review state court civil proceedings under the guise of the Civil Rights Act.'”
    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.