Goel v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2000
2 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Brown III v. Felsen · Hart Steel Company v. Railroad Supply Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) whether there has been a final judgment on the merits in a prior suit; 2) whether the prior suit involves the same parties or their privies; and 3) whether the subsequent suit is based on the same causes of action.”
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.