Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,706’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2023
3 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a suit may properly be dismissed in favor of concurrent state proceedings, the district court’s discretion must be exercised under the relevant standard prescribed by the Supreme Court. Moses H. Cone Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 19 , 103 S.Ct. 927, 938 , 74 L.Ed.2d 765 (1983). In this case that standard is the exceptional circumstances test, as elucidated by the factors discussed in Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 , 96 S.Ct. 1236 , 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976) and in Moses Cone. In Colorado River, the Supreme Court identified four factors to inform the district court’s discretion in determining whether there are “extraordinary circumstances” which justify staying or dismissing a federal court action in deference to state court proceedings. The court should consider whether either court has assumed jurisdiction over property, the inconvenience of the federal forum, avoidance of piecemeal litigation, and the order in which the court obtained jurisdiction. 424 U.S. at 818 , 96 S.Ct. at 1246 . In Moses Cone, the court identified two additional factors — which forum’s substantive law governs the merits of the litigation, 460 U.S. at 23 , 103 S.Ct. at 941 , and the adequacy of ■ the state . forum to protect the parties’ rights. Id. at 26 , 103 S.Ct. at 942 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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