Stone’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. Affordable Media, LLC (1999), Swan v. Peterson (1993)
20 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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 · Bell v. Wolfish · Preiser v. Rodriguez · O'Shea v. Littleton · Wilson v. Seiter
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts should always seek to minimize interference with legitimate state activities in tailoring remedies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re: Diet Drugs (Phentermine/fenfluramine/dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation Linda Smart, a Class Member Who Has Exercised Her Intermediate Opt-Out Rights in Re: Diet Drugs (Phentermine/fenfluramine/dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation Clara Clark, Linda Smart, George M. Fleming, Fleming & Associates, L.L.P., Mike O'Brien and Michael C. Abbott, in Re: Diet Drugs (Phentermine/fenfluramine/dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation Keith K. Barlow, Ruby S. Barlow, Cherry Barnes, Joe Wayne Burton, Nora K. Burton, Lonelle S. James, Michael J. Miller, Kenneth W. Smith, Miller & Associates, Edward A. Williamson, Fenton B. Deweese, Ii, the Law Office of Edward A. Williamson, Merrida Coxwell, Charles R. Mullins, Coxwell & Associates, Pllc, and Eugene C. Tullos, in Re: Diet Drugs (Phentermine/fenfluramine/dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation Linda Eichmiller, Brenda Cook, Richard Cook, Doris Caldwell, Susan McCarty Jim McCarty Jr., Julia Campbell, Carolyn Winters, Bobby G. Winters, MacY Houston, and John F. Houston, III · Labor/Community Strategy Center v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority“court's choice of remedies is reviewed for an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a specific and definite order of the court,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.