Lynk v. LaPorte Superior Court No. 2’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 554 · 1986
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Long v. Shorebank Development Corp. (1999), Azeez v. Fairman (1986)
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen he filed his divorce suit he had no reason to think that he had to mount a federal challenge to Indiana's procedures for divorce, for he had no reason to believe that those procedures would prove a serious obstacle to getting the divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depend on whether the state court addressed the question; it is enough that a federal claim was made, and not accepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there [were] no procedures open to him under state law for getting a decision on his petition.”
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.