Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 38 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1986), Wisniewski v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1987)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 7413 · 42 U.S.C. § 7604
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · 103 S. Ct. 247 - Beneficial Finance of Kansas, Inc. v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly federal courts have the power to determine the authority of federal court litigants, bringing suit under federal law, to enter into consent decrees approved by a federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“asked to be relieved from the discomfort of being ordered by the federal court system to obey an injunction and ordered by its own state court system to ignore it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It would be unthinkable to suggest that state courts should be free to disregard the judgments of federal courts.'”
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.