Felmeister v. Office of Attorney Ethics, A Division of the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 529 · 1988
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Ernst & Young v. Depositors Economic Protection Corp. (1995), Lac D'Amiante du Quebec v. American Home Assurance Co. (1988)
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 7324
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'depends upon factors such as whether the agency action is final; whether the issue presented for decision is one of law which requires no additional factual development; and whether further administrative action is needed to clarify the agency's position.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“considerations of ripeness are sufficiently important that we are required to raise the issue sua sponte even though the parties do not”
3 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.