Vickers v. Trainor’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 739 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Dionne v. Bouley (1985), Tommie E. Watkins v. Donald Blinzinger, Dorothy Davis v. Gregory Coler (1986)
23 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Monroe v. Pape · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · Lake Carriers' Association v. A Macmullan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an unconstrued state statute is susceptible of a construction by the state judiciary which might avoid in whole or in part the necessity for federal constitutional adjudication, or at least materially change the nature of the problem.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zbaraz v. Quern“The final services plan must include an explanation of differences between the proposed and final services plan and the reasons therefor, including a summary of the public comments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vickers v. Quern“difficult questions of state law bearing on policy problems of substantial public import whose importance transcends the result in the case then at bar.”
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.