Winters v. Lavine’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 46 · 1978
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Allen v. McCurry (1980), Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio (1980)
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Jjudicial proceedings . . . shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States ... as they have by law or usage in the courts of such [s]tate ... from which they are taken.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here must be an identity of issue which has necessarily been decided in the prior action and is decisive of the present action, and, second, there must have been a full and fair opportunity to contest the decision now said to be controlling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'it is entirely possible for a court to consider and reject a particular claim presented to it without any express discussion of or allusion to that claim.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.