Purdy v. Zeldes’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.3d 253 · 2003
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Cobb v. Pozzi (2003), Bank of New York v. First Millennium, Inc. (2010)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Marvel Characters, Inc. v. Simon · Gelb v. Royal Globe Insurance · United States v. Gordon · Boguslavsky v. Kaplan
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the identical issue was raised in a previous proceeding; (2) the issue was actually litigated and decided in the previous proceeding; (3) the party had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue; and (4) the resolution of the issue was necessary to support a valid and final judgment on the merits.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the district court held that she did not meet any of the criteria, (2) this issue was actually decided in Bulovic I, (3) Bulovic had a full and fair opportunity to litigate that issue (she argued her own case before the district court in person, and the district court published a twenty-page opinion developing but ultimately rejecting the best arguments for her position), and (4) this issue was the basis for the district court’s decision in Bulovic I.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The result of a [criminal] proceeding can be rendered unreliable, and hence the proceeding itself unfair, even if the errors of counsel cannot be shown by a preponderance of the evidence to have determined the outcome.”
1 later decision 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.