Nilsen v. City of Moss Point’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 556 · 1983
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 348 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education (1984), Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998)
146 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp.
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 348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'For a prior judgment to bar an action on the basis of res judicata, the parties must be identical in both suits, the prior judgment must have been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, there must have been a final judgment on the merits and the same cause of action must be involved in both cases.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bars all claims that were or could have been advanced in support of the cause of action on the occasion of its former adjudication, ... not merely those that were adjudicated.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“part of the [same] transaction, or series of connected transactions, out of which”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.