Diaz v. Stathis’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 9 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2008
8 federal appellate · 6 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 Younger v. Harris · Steffel v. Thompson · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Zwickler v. Koota · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a vigorous balancing test is contemplated, including the plaintiff's cost of having to proceed through the state court system, and some judgment as to how intrusive or disruptive a federal decree is likely to be to the ongoing state civil proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Jackson
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.