Rich Lemonds’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 district ·
Relationships
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc · Johnson v. De Grandy · American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. United States Lines, Inc.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the extent that the state court wrongly decided the issues before it.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the two rules often overlap in their practical effects, they rest on contrasting foundations and serve distinct purposes. Thus whereas res judicata is largely a matter of common law and involves the impropriety of permitting parties to have “two bites at the apple,” Rooker-Feldman is based squarely on federal law and is concerned with federalism and the proper delineation of the power of the lower federal courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[Sjince Rooker-Feldman deprives federal courts of jurisdiction over general claims not raised before the state court only where such claims are inextricably intertwined with the state court judgment, a claim — particularly a claim under federal law — is not precluded if it is ‘separable from and collateral to the merits of the state-court judgment.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.