Fieger v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 740 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Gilbertson v. Albright (2004), Blanton v. United States (1996)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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 · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fieger has failed to demonstrate that members of the hearing panel and the Board, “the majority of whom are lawyers, would have refused to consider a claim that the rules which they were enforcing violated federal constitutional guarantees.” ... Even if the Board could not declare a Rule of Professional Conduct unconstitutional ... [t]he Board could ... refuse to enforce it or, perhaps, narrowly construe it. We are not convinced, therefore, that Fieger is unable to raise his constitutional claims in the disciplinary proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'abstention is appropriate unless state law clearly bars the interposition of the constitutional claim'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an adequate opportunity in the state proceedings to raise constitutional challenges”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.