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179 F.3d 244 · 1999

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
March 2011
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably St. Paul Mercury Insurance v. Williamson (2000), Stripling

19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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 Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Chick Kam Choo v. Exxon Corp. · Southmark Corporation Southmark Corporation v. Coopers & Lybrand · RecoverEdge L.P. v. Pentecost

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'(1) the issue at stake must be identical to the one involved in the prior action; (2) the issue must have been actually litigated in the prior action; and (3) the determination of the issue in the prior action must have been a necessary part of the judgment in that earlier action.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “an issue of ultimate fact [that has] been determined by a valid and final judgment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “`was designed to permit a federal court to prevent state litigation of an issue that previously was presented to and decided by the federal court.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.