Gramatan Home Investors Corp. v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), Burgos v. Hopkins (1994)
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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.
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here are now but two requirements which must be satisfied before the doctrine is invoked. First, the identical issue necessarily must have been decided in the prior action and be decisive of the present action, and second, the party to be precluded from relitigating the issue must have had a full and fair opportunity to contest the prior determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“denote[s] a mutually successive relationship of the same rights to the same property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“precluded from obtaining at least one full hearing on his or her claim.”
3 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.