Fuller v. Ulland’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 957 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Cedar Rapids Cellular Telephone, L.P. v. Miller (2002), Night Clubs Inc II v. City of Fort Smith Arkansas (1998)
12 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Yagow v. United States · Love 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts to abstain from hearing cases when (1) there is an ongoing state judicial proceeding which (2) implicates important state interests, and when (3) that proceeding affords an adequate opportunity to raise the federal questions presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'so long as a possibility of return to federal court remains, a stay rather than a dismissal is the preferred mode of abstention.'”
1 later decision 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.