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← 216 FSUPP2D 283 - Mitchell v. Fishbein

Mitchell v. Fishbein’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
March 2005
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Mireles v. Waco

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[o]rdinarily, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not apply to a case in which the decision being directly or indirectly contested is a decision of a state administrative agency that has never been reviewed by a state court, even if the agency proceedings were quasi-judicial in form,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The Rooker-Feldman doctrine can also bar any claims for damages that are inextricably intertwined with the Committee's decision not to re-appoint the plaintiff.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “under rules adopted by, and issued under the authority of, the justices of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department,”
    2 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.