Leal v. Krajewski’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 332 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Wabash Valley Power Ass'n v. Rural Electrification Administration (1990), Welch v. Johnson (1990)
13 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
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 · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Lee v. City of Peoria · Jones v. City of Alton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the former judgment must have been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (2) the matter at issue was, or might have been, determined in the former suit; (3) the controversy adjudicated in the former suit was between parties to the present suit; and (4) the judgment in the former suit was rendered on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an issue has already been litigated in a former suit, and the former suit precludes the litigation of that issue in a present suit, the preclusive effect is referred to as `issue preclusion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“give state court judgments 'the same full faith and credit ... as they have by law or usage in the courts of such state.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Young
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.