Pollard v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 1002 · 1978
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Taylor v. Sturgell (2008), Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
63 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Dandridge v. Williams · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[v]irtual representation demands the existence of an express or implied legal relationship in which parties to the first suit are accountable to non-parties who file a subsequent suit raising identical issues.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'estate beneficiaries bound by administrators, presidents and sole stockholders by their companies, parent corporations by their subsidiaries, and a trust beneficiary by the trustee.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder the federal law of res judicata, a person may be bound by a judgment even though not a party if one of the parties to the suit is so closely aligned with his interests as to be his virtual representative.”
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.