William E. Fortune v. Joseph P. Mulherrin, Joseph A. Cournoyer v. Town of Lincoln’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 21 · 1976
Citation profile
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 ·
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.
“'[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.