Brindley v. McCullen’s Empirical Analysis
61 F.3d 507 · 1995
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Morales v. American Honda Motor Co. (1998), Dorris v. Absher (1999)
30 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Mitchum v. Foster · Mitchum v. Foster
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appropriate procedure, when abstaining under Younger , is to stay the proceedings rather than to dismiss the case without prejudice. Issuing a stay avoids the costs of refiling, allows the plaintiffs to retain their place on the court docket, and avoids placing plaintiffs in a sometimes difficult position of refiling their case before the statute of limitations expires.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We consider issues not fully developed and argued to be waived.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when disposition of a federal action for damages necessarily requires the resolution of issues that will determine the outcome of pending state criminal proceedings, Younger requires that the federal action not proceed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Rowan
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.