Tovar v. Billmeyer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “conflicting results, piecemeal litigation, and some duplication of judicial effort is the unavoidable price of preserving access to the federal relief which section 1983 assures”
• specific reservation of right to return to federal court by plaintiff in state action rebuts claim that plaintiff freely and without reservation submitted federal claims to state court adjudication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc. v. County of Solano
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-09-13· cited 82×
• Martinez v. Newport Beach City
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-09-10· cited 69×
• Signad, Inc. v. City of Sugar Land and Walter Wolf
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-04-10· cited 21×
• United Parcel Service, Inc. v. California Public Utilities Commission
  N.D. California· 1993-12-02· cited 7×
• Los Angeles NAACP v. Los Angeles Unified School District
  C.D. California· 1981-07-16· cited 5×
• United Parcel Service, Inc. v. California Public Utilities Commission
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-02-28· cited 5×
• Icon Groupe, LLC v. Washington County
  D. Oregon· 2013-06-07· cited 1×
• Reynolds v. State Bar of Montana
  D. Montana· 1981-09-25

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Younger v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-23· cited 14,568×
• Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-24· cited 6,491×
• Monroe v. Pape
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 4,784×
• Railroad Comm'n of Tex. v. Pullman Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-03-03· cited 3,480×
• Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-21· cited 2,418×
• Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 1,716×
• Juidice v. Vail
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,215×
• England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
  Supreme Court· 1964-01-13· cited 1,211×
• Tovar v. Billmeyer
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-11-06· cited 45×
• Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. v. City of Chula Vista
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-03-28· cited 44×
• Tovar v. Billmeyer
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 6×