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799 F.2d 1172 · 1986

Citation profile

97
cited by 97 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

46 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Collins v. State (1987), Conner v. Reinhard (1988)

46 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Montana v. United States · Bounds v. Smith · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation

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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the party against whom the doctrine is asserted was a party to the earlier proceeding; (2) the issue was actually litigated and decided on the merits; (3) the resolution of the particular issue was necessary to the result; and (4) the issues are identical.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lawson Products, Inc. v. Chromate Industrial Corp. · 654 F. Supp. 347 - O'NEILL v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
  2. “Critical to the application of collateral estoppel is the guarantee that the party sought to be estopped had the opportunity and the incentive to litigate the issue aggressively.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gilldorn Savings Association v. Commerce Savings Association · Appley v. West
  3. “so closely aligned that they represent the same legal interest.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. The Sierra Club v. United States Department of Agriculture · 226 Wis. 2d 210 - Paige K. B. v. Steven G. B.

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.