Crawford v. Chabot’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Allen v. McCurry · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the res judicata doctrine is to avoid repetitive litigation and .the .problem of inconsistent results. If a judgment is not considered final for res judicata purposes when an appeal is pending, then a plaintiff may file successive claims in multiple jurisdictions during the pendency of the appeal. This would result in exactly the kind of piecemeal litigation that res judicata is designed to guard against.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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