678 F. Supp. 839 - Duran v. Carruthers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2014
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1341
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Bell v. Wolfish · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Dandridge v. Williams
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here federal constitutional rights have been traduced, [however,] principles of restraint, including comity, separation of powers and pragmatic caution dissolve....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be a bizarre perversion of the principle of comity to suggest that a federal court is required, in order to preserve state autonomy, to override the decisions of state officials and substitute its own judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Lodge
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.