Robinson v. Stovall’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 1087 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2012
5 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Roe v. Wade · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Steffel v. Thompson · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept in extraordinary circumstances, a civil rights plaintiff's ability to sue to vindicate his rights in federal court is not affected by the simultaneous pendency of a state prosecution against someone else”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts have not hesitated to reject an 'intertwining' theory, even in cases involving co-employees or employees and employers ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“common interest in the outcome of federal litigation nor a common effort in pressing it requires abstention as to all plaintiffs.”
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.