McClain v. Apodaca’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 1031 · 1986
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Robi v. Five Platters, Inc. (1988), Clark v. Bear Stearns & Co. (1992)
56 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1293 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Nevada v. United States · Abel v. United States · Dixson v. United States · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. United States
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“operates to bar all grounds for recovery which could have been asserted, whether they were or not, in a prior suit between the same parties (or their privies) on the same cause of action, if the prior suit concluded in a final judgment on the merits rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insures the finality of decisions, conserves judicial resources and protects litigants from multiple lawsuits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawkins v. Risley · Reiman“Claim preclusion treats a judgment, once rendered, as the full measure of relief to be accorded between the same parties on the same claim or cause of action.”
3 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.