Feaster v. Miksch’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 21 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Simpson v. Rowan (1995), Schilling v. White (1995)
29 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Stone v. Powell · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires the resolution of issues that will determine the outcome of pending state criminal proceedings....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the need to avoid federal interference in ongoing state judicial proceedings that implicate vital state interests, including the state's interest in maintaining its system of criminal justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schilling v. White“[a]ny adjudication by this Court, or by the District Court, ... would necessarily determine the same questions ... as are at issue”
1 later decision 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.