Greening v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 301 · 1992
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Retired Chicago Police Association Carepac v. City of Chicago M, GASH Associates v. Village of Rosemont (1993)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o say that abstention is in order ... is to say that federal courts should not address the merits, period”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not appropriate to address the merits in a case to which Younger applies”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rejected Greening's constitutional arguments on the merits--and if he withheld from the state tribunal some of the points he makes here, Greening has only himself to blame.”
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.