Melikian v. Corradetti’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 274 · 1986
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 33 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Gregory v. Chehi (1988), Bennun v. Rutgers State University (1991)
24 federal appellate · 33 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 992
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Bogosian v. Gulf Oil Corp. · State, Dept. of Environ. Protect. v. Ventron Corp. · Baetich v. Hobby
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If] the litigants in the action as framed will, after final judgment therein is entered, be likely to engage in additional litigation in order to conclusively dispose of their respective bundles of rights and liabilities which derive from a single transaction or related series of transactions, then the omitted component must be regarded as constituting an element of the minimum mandatory unit of litigation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the identical issue was decided in a prior adjudication; (2) there was a final judgment on the merits; (3) the party against whom the bar is asserted was a party or in privity with a party to the prior adjudication; and (4) the party against whom it is asserted has had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in question [in the prior matter].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires that a person assert in one action all related claims against a particular adversary or be precluded from bringing a second action based on the omitted claims against that party.”
4 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.