Virgo v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), Jackson v. R. G. Whipple, Inc. (1993)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 207 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Imbler v. Pachtman · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Carey v. Piphus · Smith v. Wade
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`For an issue to be subject to collateral estoppel, it must have been fully and fairly litigated in the first action. It also must have been actually decided and the decision must have been necessary to the judgment.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]laim preclusion prevents a litigant from reasserting a claim that has already been decided on the merits.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“protect the finality of judicial determinations, conserve the time of the court, and prevent wasteful relitigation.”
6 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.