Riehm v. Engelking’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.3d 952 · 2008
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Southerland v. City of New York (2011), McRaven v. Sanders (2009)
17 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Malley v. Briggs · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a federal plaintiff asserts as a legal wrong an allegedly erroneous decision by a state court, and seeks relief from a state court judgment based on that decision, Rooker-Feldman bars subject matter jurisdiction in federal district court. If, on the other hand, a federal plaintiff asserts as a legal wrong an allegedly illegal act or omission by an adverse party, Rooker-Feldman does not bar jurisdiction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not seek to overturn the ex parte order by this action. Rather, they seek redress under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an alleged unconstitutional seizure of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleges unconstitutional actions by [the defendant] in seeking and executing [an] ex parte order,”
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.