Staley v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 1016 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Narey v. Dean (1994), Kim Goodman Michael Goodman v. Patricia Sipos D'Anna Liber - (2001)
12 federal appellate ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Lehman Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lycoming County Children's Services Agency · Clark v. Florida · Wood v. Orange County · Anderson v. State of Colorado
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o federal subject matter jurisdiction existed in this case. In effect, Staley seeks to challenge collaterally the state agency and court proceedings that terminated her parental rights. The federal courts are not a forum for appealing state court decisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a federal district court] may not decide federal issues that are raised in state proceedings and 'inextricably intertwined' with the state court's judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in essence sought to reverse a state court's child custody determination”
2 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.