MacKay v. Pfeil’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 540 · 1987
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably WMX Technologies, Inc. v. Miller (1997), Noel v. Hall (2003)
64 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1345 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · William Marbury v. James Madison · 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal district courts, as courts of original jurisdiction, may not serve as appellate tribunals to review errors allegedly committed by state courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reasons for our holding do nothing to undermine the propriety of the award of attorney's fees”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As courts of original jurisdiction, federal district courts have no authority to review the final determinations of a state court in judicial proceedings.”
2 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.