Snider’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2013
5 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. · Hansberry v. Lee · Johnson v. De Grandy · Spencer v. Brown
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rooker-Feldman precludes a federal action if the relief requested in the federal action would effectively reverse the state court decision or void its holding, [cit. omitted] Deciding whether Rooker-Feldman bars the plaintiffs’ federal suit therefore requires that we determine what the state court held and whether the relief that the plaintiffs requested in their federal action would void the state court’s decision or would require us to determine that the decision was wrong. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not bar a federal claim brought by one who was not a party to the state court action and therefore not in any position to seek appellate review of the state court judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rooker-Feldman precludes federal action if the relief requested in the federal action would effectively reverse the state court decision or void its holding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.