Buckner v. Kennard’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Anderson Development Co. v. Tobias (2005), Ockey v. Lehmer (2008)
2 district · 54 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 5596
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Cort v. Ash · Alexander v. Sandoval · 21 Cal. 4th 815 - Vandenberg v. Superior Court
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the issue decided in the prior adjudication is identical to the one presented in the instant action; (2) the party against whom issue preclusion is asserted was a party, or in privity with a party, to the prior adjudication; (3) the issue in the first action was completely, fully, and fairly litigated; and (4) the first suit resulted in a final judgment on the merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“' "precludes the relitigation of all issues that could have been litigated as well as those that were, in fact, litigated in the prior action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Collateral estoppel, otherwise known as issue preclusion, prevents parties or their privies from relitigating facts and issues in the second suit that were fully litigated in the first suit.”
3 later decisions 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.