Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 365 · 1997
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 184 Ill. 2d 290 - River Park, Inc. v. City of Highland Park (1998), Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998)
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts essential to the second were [already] present in the first.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven where a second action arises from some of the same factual circumstances that gave rise to a prior action, res judicata is inapplicable if formal jurisdictional or statutory barriers precluded the plaintiff from asserting its claims in the first action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not apply to new rights acquired during the action which might have been, but which were not, litigated.”
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.