Willis v. Fournier’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Vicory v. Walton (1983), Hicks v. Quaker Oats Co. (1981)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Simler v. Conner · Aerojet-General Corp. v. Askew · Bruszewski 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Application of collateral estoppel does not require complete identity of the parties. "The federal principle of collateral estoppel precludes re-litigation of an adversely decided issue by a party who has once had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issues, regardless of whether his present adversary was a party to the lawsuit."”
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.