Cawley v. Celeste’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.3d 230 · 2013
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1107 · 11 U.S.C. § 1141 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permissible to bypass Rooker-Feldman to reach a preclusion question that disposes of a case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“there must be (1) “[a] final decision on the merits in the first action by a court of competent jurisdiction,” (2) “the same parties, or their privies,” in the second action as in the first, (3) an issue in the second action that was “actually litigated” or that “should have been litigated in the first action,” and (4) “[a]n identity of the causes of action.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that with the exception of habeas corpus proceedings, the inferior federal courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction over '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.' " Cawley v. Celeste (In re Athens/Alpha Gas Corp.) , 715 F.3d 230 , 234 (8th Cir. 2013), citing Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp. , 544 U.S. 280 , 284, 125 S.Ct. 1517 , 161 L.Ed.2d 454 (2005). The doctrine has always been interpreted as a "narrow proposition,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Mus
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.