Mpoyo v. Litton Electro-Optical System’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 985 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Lozano v. AT & T Wireless Services, Inc. (2007), Adams v. California Department of Health Services (2007)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Allen v. McCurry · Singleton v. Wulff · Nilsen v. City of Moss Point · Stewart v. U.S. Bancorp · Dodd v. Hood River County
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the two suits arise out of the same transactional nucleus of facts; (2) whether rights or interests established in the prior judgment would be destroyed or impaired by prosecution of the second action; (3) whether the two suits involve infringement of the same right; and (4) whether substantially the same evidence is presented in the two actions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies when the earlier suit ... (1) involved the same claim or cause of action as the later suit, (2) reached a final judgment on the merits, and (3) involved identical parties or privies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Mpoyo I ... Mpoyo alleged racial discrimination (resulting in varied forms of harassment) and retaliation for reporting “racial epithets” to management in violation of Title VII. In this action, Mpoyo asserts Litton violated (1) the FMLA by placing him on administrative leave when he had a serious medical condition covered under the Act’s leave provisions and (2) the FLSA by failing to pay him overtime compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Hodap
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.