Lawrence v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is confined to cases of the kind from which the doctrine acquired its name: cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and inviting district court review and rejection of those judgments.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Haslam · Thomas v. Haslam

2. “[C]laims seeking injunctive relief are barred by Rooker - Feldman if they necessarily require the federal court to determine that a state court judgment was erroneously entered.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Haslam · Thomas v. Haslam

3. “The inquiry [focuses on] the source of the injury the plaintiff alleges in the federal complaint. If the source of the injury is the state court decision, then the Rooker-Feldman doctrine would prevent the district court from asserting jurisdiction. If there is some other source of injury, such as a third party’s actions, then the plaintiff asserts an independent claim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re: Frederick J. Smith v.