Spence v. Latting’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 93 · 1975
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education (1984), St. Louis Baptist Temple, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1979)
33 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Fay v. Noia · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Cromwell v. County of Sac
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.
“The federal court house doors were initially open to him; but he deliberately chose the state forum. Allowing him now to bring claims in the federal court which were appurtenant to the core of his cause of action in prior state court suits would work a disservice to the salutary policies underlying res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Where a second suit between the same parties or their privies is on the same cause of action, the final judgment in the prior action is conclusive as to all matters which were actually litigated as well as those which could have been litigated. 512 F.2d at 98 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In pursuit of this cause of action, [the officer] was perfectly free to plead and litigate his federal constitutional claims in ... the state court actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jarrett v. Gramling
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.