Litteral v. Bach’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 297 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2002
12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Moore v. Sims · Deakins v. Monaghan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, there must be ongoing state proceedings which are judicial in nature. Second, those proceedings involve an important state interest. And, third, the state proceedings must afford the federal plaintiff a reasonable opportunity to raise his federal constitutional claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the District Court has no discretion to dismiss rather than to stay claims for monetary relief that cannot be redressed in the state proceedings”
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.