Robinson v. Stovall’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2004
4 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 · 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 15 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“common interest in the outcome of federal litigation nor a common effort in pressing it requires abstention as to all plaintiffs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The federal plaintiffs and state defendants in Hicks had much closer mutual interests than common membership in, or support of, a large political organization: they were the owners and employees of the same small business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dl Jl Rl
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.