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846 F.2d 21 · 1988

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
November 2006
most recently cited

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 ·

200198819902000decided

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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 majority
  3. “[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.