Hamilton v. Herr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the debt was discharged, then the state-court judgment was a modification of the discharge order and is void ab initio. If the debt was not discharged pursuant to the bankruptcy court's discharge order, then the state-court judgment was not a modification of the discharge order and the Rooker-Feldman doctrine would bar federal-court jurisdiction.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 695 F. Supp. 2d 633 - Long v. CVS CAREMARK CORP. · In Re Hunt

2. “state courts are allowed to construe the discharge in bankruptcy, but what they are not allowed to do is construe the discharge incorrectly, because an incorrect application of the discharge order would be equivalent to a modification of the discharge order.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Isaacs v. DBI-ASG Coinvestor Fund, III, LLC (In re Isaacs) · Wohleber v. Skurko (In re Wohleber)

3. “[T]he Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not prohibit all federal cases that are somehow related to a prior state-court decision. “If a federal plaintiff ‘presents some independent claim, albeit one that denies a legal conclusion that a state court has reached in a case to which he was a party, then there is jurisdiction and state law determines whether the defendant prevails under principles of preclusion.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunt v. L.A.J., Inc. (In Re Hunt)