Sullivan v. Easco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2014
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 26 U.S.C. § 61 (Payment-in-Kind Tax Treatment Act of 1983)
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · In re Martin-Trigona
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile `the stipulation of dismissal with prejudice constitutes a final judgment for the purpose of res judicata (claim preclusion)[,] [it does] not for the purpose of collateral estoppel (issue preclusion).'”
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.