Rooker v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Dawson v. Wright, Mayor, Etc. (1955), Cantwell v. Cantwell (1957)
2 federal appellate · 66 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 Hovey v. Elliott · Wolverton v. Wolverton · Goodrich v. Stangland · Stamets v. Mitchenor · Meyers v. State
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, from any cause, either party shall fail to plead or make up the issues within the time prescribed, the court shall forthwith enter judgment as upon a default, unless, for good cause shown, further time be given for pleading, on the payment of the costs occasioned by the delay.” (Acts 1881 [Spec. Sess.], ch. 38, § 105, p. 240.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * it is accordingly our conclusion that neither the statutes involved, nor the procedure followed in this case, denied appellant due process of law, or invaded his constitutional rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.