Skinner v. Switzer’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 40 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Heck v. Humphrey · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A.
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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will ultimately prevail ... but whether his complaint [is] sufficient to cross the federal court's threshold.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally requires only a plausible 'short and plain' statement of the plaintiff's claim, not an exposition of his legal argument.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he losing party in state court filed suit in a U.S. District Court after the state proceedings ended, complaining of an injury caused by the state-court judgment and seeking federal-court review and rejection of that judgment. Alleging federal-question jurisdiction, the plaintiffs in Rooker and Feldman asked the District Court to overturn the injurious state-court judgment. [The Supreme Court] held, in both cases, that the District Courts lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over such claims, for 28 U.S.C. § 1257 "vests authority to review a state court's judgment solely in [the Supreme Court]"”
5 later decisions 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.