Scott v. Younger’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 1464 · 1984
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Williams v. Woodford (2002), Bruce v. United States (1985)
83 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
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Juidice v. Vail · Provenzano v. United States · Clipper Exxpress v. Rocky Mountain Motor Tariff Bureau · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. National Mediation Board
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ask the district court whether it wishes to entertain the motion, or to grant it, and then move this court, if appropriate, for remand of the case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the result is obvious and [appellant's] arguments are wholly without merit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the district court's order is construed as a denial of Scott's request to 'entertain' the motion to vacate, that denial is interlocutory in nature and not appealable.”
2 later decisions 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.