Lebbos’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Hirsh v. Justices Of Supreme Court of State of California: (1995), Simpson v. Rowan (1995)
6 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Baker v. McCollan · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantive due process 'protects a liberty or property interest in pursuing the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent the district court's decision to dismiss the section 1983 claims against the private defendants is based on Younger abstention, it must be rejected. The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether the principles under Younger apply with equal force to claims for damages under section 1983.”
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.