Coats v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 236 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2015
15 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Peterson v. Babbitt
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The strong state interest in domestic relations matters, [and] the superior competence of state courts in settling family disputes because regulation and supervision of domestic relations within their borders is entrusted to the states ... makes federal abstention in these cases appropriate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal courts traditionally decline to exercise jurisdiction in domestic relations cases when the core issue involve the status of parent and child,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the constitutional claims in the case have independent merit, the state courts are competent to hear them”
4 later decisions 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.