Facio v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 541 · 1991
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 24 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Noel v. Hall (2003), Phelps v. Hamilton (1997)
72 federal appellate · 24 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. § 1257 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · O'Shea v. Littleton · Golden v. Zwickler · Texas v. Louisiana
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff cannot maintain a declaratory or injunctive action unless he or she can demonstrate a good chance of being likewise injured in the future.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any declaratory relief that is 'inextricably intertwined' with the state court judgment,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a constitutional issue could have been reviewed on direct appeal by the state appellate courts, a litigant may not seek to reverse or modify the state court judgment by bringing a constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”
5 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.