Wolfson v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
623 F.2d 1074 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner (1985), Chemetron Corporation v. Business Funds, Inc. (1982)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Cort v. Ash · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Frank v. Mangum
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“distinctly put in issue and directly determined”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that a prior criminal conviction may work an estoppel ... in a subsequent civil proceeding... . Such estoppel extends only to questions "distinctly put in issue and directly determined" in the criminal prosecution... . In the case of a criminal conviction based on a jury verdict of guilty, issues which were essential to the verdict must be regarded as having been determined by the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wolfson had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue of his knowledge, that the issue of his knowledge had been directly determined in the criminal trial, and that no injustice would result from the application of collateral estoppel in this case.”
1 later decision 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.