Lance v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 161 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 978 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Marshall v. Marshall (2006), Great Western Mining & Mineral Co. v. Fox Rothschild LLP (2010)
188 federal appellate · 161 district · 14 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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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 978 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies only ... where a party in effect seeks to take an appeal of an unfavorable state-court decision to a lower federal court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“lower federal courts are precluded from exercising appellate jurisdiction over final state-court judgments.”
4 later decisions 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.