Angel v. Bullington’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 183 · 1947
Citation profile
686 federal appellate · 195 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,659 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Allen v. McCurry (1980)
686 federal appellate · 195 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedAngel v. Bullington (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Holmberg v. Armbrecht
Cited together with Erie Co v. Tompkins · Woods v. Interstate Realty Co. · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
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 1,659 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an asserted federal claim is denied enforcement on a professed local ground, but a so-called local ground which is subject to review here because it is in fact the adjudication of a federal question, then the ‘merits’ of that claim were adjudicated in the only sense that adjudication of the ‘merits’ is relevant to the principles of res judicata. A State court cannot sterilize federal claims by putting on the adjudication a local label.” 330 U.S. 190 , 191, 67 S.Ct. 657 , 661.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of course, where resort is had to a federal court not on grounds of diversity of citizenship but because a federal right is claimed, the limitations upon the courts of a State do not control a federal court sitting in the State.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issues that were or could have been dealt with in an earlier litigation.”
8 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.