Beltran v. State of California’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 777 · 1988
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bettencourt v. Board of Registration in Medicine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1990), Hirsh v. Justices Of Supreme Court of State of California: (1995)
25 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Gibson v. Berryhill · Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools, Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court cannot refuse to abstain, retain jurisdiction over the action, and render a decision on the merits after the state proceedings have ended. To the contrary, Younger abstention requires dismissal of the federal action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when Younger abstention applies, federal plaintiffs cannot reserve their federal claim from state court adjudication for later decision by the federal court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Younger v. Harris contemplates the outright dismissal of the federal suit, and the presentation of all claims, both state and federal, to the state courts.”
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.