Hardison v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1281 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 68 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), Precision Air Parts, Inc. v. Avco Corp. (1984)
14 federal appellate · 68 district ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 10 U.S.C. § 681
Relies on Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Kalb v. Feuerstein · First Investment Annuity Co. of America v. Miller · In re Vendo Co.
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he parties to a suit and their privies are bound by a final judgment and may not relitigate any ground for relief which they already have had an opportunity to litigate even if they chose not to exploit that opportunity-whether the initial judgment was erroneous or not.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he doctrine is designed to conserve judicial resources, avoid inconsistent results, engender respect for judgments of predictable and certain effect, and to prevent serial forum-shopping and piecemeal litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When Hardison failed to appeal the unfavorable summary judgment ruling of the Michigan court, he permitted the judgment of that court to become final, and forever lost the right to relitigate the issues he had an opportunity to raise before that court.”
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.