Brunken v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 1325 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Wilson v. Civil Town of Clayton (1988)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Kentucky v. Graham · Daniels v. Williams
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic principle of Younger abstention is that, absent extraordinary circumstances, a federal court should not interfere with pending state judicial proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hickey v. Duffy · Hickey v. Duffy“an extraordinarily pressing need for immediate equitable relief,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where the District Court properly finds that the state proceeding is motivated by a desire to harass or is conducted in bad faith, or where the challenged statute is “ ‘flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph, and in whatever manner and against whomever an effort might be made to apply it.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.