Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Whitney Holdings, Ltd. v. Givotovsky (1997), United States v. Alfano (1999)
3 district · 3 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
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Thompson v. Thompson · In re Disbarment of Sabiston · Schwartz v. Public Administrator · Connecticut Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. v. Brown
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That does not end the matter, however: Recognizing that the doctrine places termination of litigation ahead of the correct result, the application of collateral estoppel has been narrowly tailored to ensure that it applies only where the circumstances indicate the issue es-topped from further consideration was thoroughly explored in the prior proceeding, and that the resulting judgment thus has some indicia of correctness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[First,] [t]here must be an identity of issue which has necessarily been decided in the prior action and is decisive of the present action, and second, there must have been a full and fair opportunity to contest the decision now said to be controlling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By foregoing the opportunity to reexamine an issue, a degree of certainty about the correctness of the prior result is sacrificed, that is to say, the bar of collateral estoppel carries with it the devastating danger that the first decision on an issue may have been wrong and will remain unremedied. Use of the doctrine represents an informed choice that the occasional permanent encapsulation of a wrong result is a price worth paying to promote the worthy goals of ending disputes and avoiding repetitive litigation.”
1 later decision 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.