No. 96-1019’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2012
2 district · 2 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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Hansberry v. Lee · United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The lawyers support the settlement to get fees; the defendants support it to evade liability; the court can't vindicate the class's rights because the friendly presentation means that it lacks essential information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Epstein v. McA, Inc. · Epstein“[w]e, too, have held that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not affect suits by or against persons who were not parties to the initial case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“may even put one over on the court, in a staged performance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Epstein v. McA, Inc. · Epstein
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.