Itt Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Sumner v. Mata · Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp. · Alan J. Cornblatt, PA v. Barow
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state and federal claims are inextricably intertwined (1) when in order to grant the federal plaintiff the relief sought, the federal court must determine that the state court judgment was erroneously entered [or] (2) when the federal court must ... take action that would render [the state court’s] judgment ineffectual.... If the relief requested in the federal action requires determining that the state court’s decision is wrong or would void the state court’s ruling, then the issues are inextricably intertwined and the district. court has no subject matter jurisdiction to hear the suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] claim is barred by Rooker-Feldman under two circumstances; first, if the federal claim was actually litigated in state court prior to the filing of the federal action or, second, if the federal claim is inextricably intertwined with the state adjudication, meaning that federal relief can only be predicated upon a conviction that the state court was wrong. In either case, Rooker-Feldman bars a litigant’s federal claims and divests the District Court of subject matter jurisdiction over those claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rooker-Feldman applies only when in order to grant the federal plaintiff the relief sought, the federal court must determine that the state court judgment was erroneously entered, or must take action that would render the state judgment ineffectual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marran
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.