Goetzman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably In Re: Pamela Knapper, (2005), In Re Middlesex Power Equipment & Marine, Inc.
5 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
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc · Spencer v. Brown · Charchenko v. City of Stillwater
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he federal claim is inextricably intertwined with the state-court judgment if the federal claim succeeds only to the extent that the state court wrongly decided the issues before it. Where federal relief can only be predicated upon a conviction that the state court was wrong, it is difficult to conceive the federal proceeding as, in substance, anything other than a prohibited appeal of the state-court judgment. 25”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Sjince Rooker-Feldman deprives federal courts of jurisdiction over general claims not raised before the state court only where such claims are inextricably intertwined with the state court judgment, a claim — particularly a claim under federal law — is not precluded if it is ‘separable from and collateral to the merits of the state-court judgment.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]pplication of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not depend on a final judgment on the merits of an issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.