United States v. Stauffer Chemical Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
247 federal appellate · 86 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 735 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Mendoza (1984), Kansas Public Employees Retirement System v. Reimer & Koger Associates, Inc. (1997)
247 federal appellate · 86 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedUnited States v. Stauffer Chemical Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 7407
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Commissioner v. Sunnen · United States v. Mendoza
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 735 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]hen the claims in two separate actions between the same parties are the same or are closely related ... it is not ordinarily necessary to characterize an issue as one of fact or of law for purposes of issue preclusion. ... In such a case, it is unfair to the winning party and an unnecessary burden on the courts to allow repeated litigation of the same issue in what is essentially the same controversy, even if the issue is regarded as one of 'law'.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'successive actions involving unrelated subject matter.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“an intervening change in the applicable legal context”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.