Walker v. Horn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “(1) the federal court must determine that the state court judgment was erroneously entered in order to grant the requested relief, or (2) the federal court must take an action that would negate the state court’s judgment....”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Knapper v. Bankers Trust Co. · Randall v. Bank One National Ass'n (In Re Randall)

2. “(1) when the claim was actually litigated before the state court; or (2) when the claim is inextricably intertwined with the state adjudication.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Knapper v. Bankers Trust Co. · In re Pa., Dep't of Transp.

3. “of state courts, see, e.g., FOCUS v. Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, 75 F.3d 834, 840 (3d Cir.1996), it cannot bar his due process claim because there was no final decision by a state court. Rather, there was only a preliminary injunction, which, under Pennsylvania law, is not a final merits decision, but a temporary remedy granted until a dispute can be completely resolved. Reply Br. at 4. However, this contention ignores that we have held that the doctrine also applies where a state court issues a preliminary injunction because”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walker v. Horn