Miner v. Brackney’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 954 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2011
13 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell · Singleton v. Wulff · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when disposition of the civil suit would require federal intervention in a matter presently pending in state court.... [T]he federal court must weigh the potential disruption of the orderly administration of criminal justice against potential harm to the litigant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bressman v. Farrier
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.