Whitley v. Seibel’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 245 · 1982
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Spell v. McDaniel (1987), Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky (1983)
47 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Townsend v. Sain · Allen v. McCurry · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the issue sought to be concluded is the same as that involved in the prior action; was litigated in the prior action; was in fact judicially determined in the prior action; and whether the judgment in the prior action was depend ent upon the determination made of the issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the actual measure of damages is an exercise in fact-finding,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It can be used as a shield by a new defendant against a plaintiff who was a party to the former litigation.... Or it can be used as a sword by a new plaintiff against a defendant who was a party to the former litigation.... It can never be used as a sword against a party who has not previously had his day in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Jones
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.