Hernandez v. City of Lafayette’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 734 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Marvel Characters, Inc. v. Simon (2002), Amey, Inc. v. Gulf Abstract & Title, Inc. (1985)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Allen v. McCurry · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · Hernandez v. City of Lafayette · 359 So. 2d 154 - Welch v. Crown Zellerbach Corp. · 340 So. 2d 287 - Mitchell v. Bertolla
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal court, asked to give res judicata effect to a state court judgment, must apply the res judicata principles of the law of the state whose decision is set up as a bar to further litigation. ED Systems Corporation v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, 674 F.2d 453, 457 (5th Cir.1982); Southern Jam, 675 F.2d at 97-98.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he changed circumstances must be 'significant' and must create 'new legal conditions.'”
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.