M.D. v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 670 (§ 470 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 672 (§ 472 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the dispute must involve an ongoing state judicial proceeding, (2) an important state interest in the subject matter of the proceeding must be implicated, and (3) the state proceeding must afford an adequate opportunity to raise the constitutional challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with pending civil proceedings involving certain orders ... uniquely in furtherance of the state courts' ability to perform their judicial functions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tinsley v. McKay
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.