Postscript Enterprises, Inc. v. Peach’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 1114 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2010
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Hicks v. Miranda · Juidice v. Vail · Mandel v. Bradley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Younger abstention doctrine the federal courts must abstain from interfering with the efforts of states or local governments ‘to protect the very interests which underlie [their] criminal laws and to obtain compliance with precisely the standards which are embodied in [their] criminal laws.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loch v. Watkins“The state’s interest in these forfeiture proceedings is likely to be as great as its interest in its criminal law proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loch v. Watkins
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.