Dale v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 624 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Ned L. Siegel, Georgette Sosa Douglas v. Theresa Lepore, Charles E. Burton (2000), Nicholson v. Shafe (2009)
19 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Sumner v. Mata · In re Summers · Metaullics Systems Co. v. Cooper
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the party in federal court is the same as the party in state court; (2) the prior state court ruling was a final or conclusive judgment on the merits; (3) the party seeking relief in federal court had a reasonable opportunity to raise its federal claims in the state court proceeding; and (4) the issue before the federal court was either adjudicated by the state court or was inextricably intertwined with the state court's judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ederal district courts may not exercise jurisdiction to decide federal issues which are inextricably intertwined with a state court's judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not provide an independent source of federal court jurisdiction that overrides the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Mann
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.