Hutcherson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 605 F. Supp. 2d 914 - Whittiker v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (2009), Butcher v. Wendt (2020)
1 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
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In defining what is meant by “inextricably intertwined,” this court has found that a federal claim is inextricably intertwined with the state-court judgment if the federal claim succeeds only to the extent that the state court wrongly decided the issues before it. Where federal relief can only be predicated upon a conviction that the state court was wrong, it is difficult to conceive the federal proceeding as, in substance, anything other than a prohibited appeal of the state-court judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rooker - Feldman should be considered first since its application strips federal courts of jurisdiction and the ability to hear a res judicata, or other affirmative defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ha[sj not failed to exercise our jurisdiction to reach an issue that the parties have not briefed where it involves a ‘pure question of law that cries out for resolution.'”
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.