Thomas v. Kadish’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 276 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Stuart v. Spademan (1985), Narey v. Dean (1994)
19 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1257 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hanson v. Denckla · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the constitutional claims presented to a United States district court are inextricably intertwined with the state court’s denial in a judicial proceeding of a particular plaintiffs [claim], then the district court is in essence being called upon to review the state-court decision. This the district court may not do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By failing to raise his claims in state court a plaintiff may forfeit his right to obtain review of the state court decision in any federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`may be analogized to the function of a special master' in taking actions of an `essentially judicial nature.'”
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.