Bridges v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 470 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 17 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Gilbertson v. Albright (2004), 530 F. Supp. 2d 46 - McManus v. District of Columbia (2007)
12 federal appellate · 17 district · 2 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 38 U.S.C. § 2021 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the relief [appellants] seek in this ease is far broader than that which the local court could have granted in the administrative review proceeding.... There being no pending state ... proceedings that would have afforded appellants a full and fair opportunity to litigate their [federal] claims, the predicate for Younger abstention [i]s simply absent in this ease.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Fjirst, a federal court may dismiss a federal claim only when there are ongoing state proceedings that are judicial in nature; second, the state proceedings must implicate important state interests; third, the proceedings must afford an adequate opportunity in which to raise the federal claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Instead, every time the question has arisen, we have assumed that the doctrine applies to the District and nonetheless determined, in light of the facts of each particular case, that Younger abstention has not been appropriate.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.