Gill & Duffus Services, Inc. v. A. M. Nural Islam’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 404 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Class, Chew v. Gates (1994)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · Federal Trade Commission v. Fred Meyer, Inc. · Astron Industrial Associates, Inc. v. Chrysler Motors Corp. · Jefferson School of Social Science v. Subversive Activities Control Board
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'privity' signifies that the relationship between two or more persons is such that a judgment involving one of them may justly be conclusive upon the others, although those others were not party to the lawsuit.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judgment against one person liable for a loss does not terminate a claim that the injured party may have against another person who may be liable therefor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so identified in interest with a party to former litigation that he represents precisely the same legal right in respect to the subject matter involved.”
2 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.