Partington v. Gedan’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 116 · 1989
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Bettencourt v. Board of Registration in Medicine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1990), Gilbertson v. Albright (2004)
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 47 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily the dismissal of a complaint without the dismissal of the underlying action is not considered an appealable final order under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The nature of the state proceedings in order to determine whether the proceedings implicate important state interests, (2) the timing of the request for federal relief in order to determine whether there are ongoing state proceedings, and (3) the ability of the federal plaintiff to litigate its federal constitutional claims in the state proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a separate motion to th[e] court, severable from the balance of the brief.”
2 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.