Whiteford v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 671 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Taliaferro v. Darby Township Zoning Board (2006), Desi's Pizza, Inc. v. City of Wilkes-Barre (2003)
20 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · E.B. v. Verniero · American Casualty Co. of Reading v. Phico Insurance · Focus v. Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has consistently held that where a state action does not reach the merits of a plaintiff's claims, then Rooker-Feldman does not deprive the federal court of jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Application of the Rook-er-Feldman doctrine is a question of federal subject matter jurisdiction over which we exercise plenary review.”). . Sullivan's”
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.