Traughber v. Beauchane’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 673 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Texaco Inc. v. Pennzoil Co. (1986), Green v. City of Tucson (2001)
38 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Fuentes v. Shevin · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because theories of state and federal law, and expressions of federalism and comity, are so interrelated in the decision to abstain such dispositions are elevated to a level of importance dictating de novo appellate review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tort suit against the Traughbers hardly qualifie[d] as a '[p]roceeding( ) necessary for the vindication of important state policies or the functioning of the state judicial system.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“invoke[d] federal jurisdiction under the civil rights act to prevent a private litigant from utilizing state statutes in a manner that allegedly violates their constitutional rights,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Litteral v. Bach
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.