Heiser v. Woodruff’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 726 · 1946
Citation profile
286 federal appellate · 106 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,162 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Grogan v. Garner (1991), Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation (1971)
286 federal appellate · 106 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWoodruff v. Heiser (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Pepper v. Litton · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
Cited together with Pepper v. Litton · Brown III v. Felsen · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Montana v. United States
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 1,162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undoubtedly, since the Bankruptcy Act authorizes a proof of claim based on a judgment, such a proof may be assailed in the bankruptcy court on the ground that the purported judgment is not a judgment because of want of jurisdiction of the court which rendered it over the persons of the parties or the subject matter of the suit, or because it was procured by fraud of a party. But it is quite another matter to say that the bankruptcy court may reexamine the issues determined by the judgment itself.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Bulic · In re Johnson“no principle of law or equity which sanctions the rejection by a federal court of the salutary principle of res judicata .”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In general a judgment is res judicata not only as to all matters litigated and decided by it, but as to all relevant issues which could have been but were not raised and litigated in the suit.”
12 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.