Jordahl’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Bryan v. Fawkes (2014), Okan's Foods, Inc. v. Windsor Associates Ltd. Partnership (In Re Okan's Foods, Inc.) (1998)
10 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 Younger v. Harris · Heck v. Humphrey · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the state-law claim raises a novel or complex issue of state law, (2) the state-law claim substantially predominates over the claim or claims over which the district court has original jurisdiction, (3) the district court has dismissed all claims over which it has original jurisdiction, or (4) in exceptional circumstances, there are other compelling reasons for declining jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f 'in order to grant the federal plaintiff the relief sought, the federal court must determine that the state court judgment was erroneously entered or must take action that would render the judgment ineffectual,' Rooker - Feldman is implicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“actions seeking review of the state court decisions themselves and those cases challenging the constitutionality of the process by which the state court decisions resulted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Washington v. Reese
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.