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882 F.3d 763 · 2018

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Gerstein v. Pugh · O'Shea v. Littleton · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n

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.

  1. “Younger abstention is appropriate when: (1) there is an ongoing state judicial proceeding; (2) the proceeding implicates important state interests; (3) there is an adequate opportunity in the state proceedings to raise constitutional challenges; and (4) the requested relief seeks to enjoin or has the practical effect of enjoining the ongoing state judicial proceeding.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “even if Younger abstention is appropriate, federal courts do not invoke it if there is a 'showing of bad faith, harassment, or some other extraordinary circumstance that would make abstention inappropriate.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “directed at the state prosecutions as such, but only at the legality of pretrial detention without a judicial hearing, an issue that could not be raised in defense of the criminal prosecution,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.