Thibodeaux v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2017
1 district ·
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
Relies on Califano v. Sanders · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Nettles v. Wainwright · Nilsen v. City of Moss Point
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Issue preclusion,” which is also called direct or collateral estoppel, “refers to the effect of a judgment in foreclosing relit-igation of a matter that has been litigated and decided.“Claim preclusion,” which includes the law of bar and merger, “refers to the effect of a judgment in foreclosing litigation of a matter that never has been litigated, because ... it should have been advanced in an earlier suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Small v. Sullivan
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.