Bickham v. Lashof’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 1238 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Hoover v. Wagner (1995), General Foods Corporation v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1981)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Roe v. Wade · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Collateral estoppel is appropriate where) the party against whom the estoppel is asserted had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior proceeding and the application of the doctrine will not result in an injustice under the particular circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because of their superior competence to adjudicate such matters or because the federal issues touch matters of traditional state concern, the resolution of which is of singular importance to the administration of state affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are mindful that abstention is rooted in equity. Thus, we cannot overlook the delays that have occurred in plaintiff's case ... or the nature of the injury alleged to occur as long as the Act remains in force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Snyder
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.