Headley v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 1272 · 1987
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Saulpaugh v. Monroe Community Hospital (1993), Gray v. Lacke (1989)
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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. § 7422 · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Montana v. United States · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the prior judgment was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, (2) the decision was a final judgment on the merits, and (3) the same cause of action and the same parties or their privies were involved in both cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“litigation involving officials in their official capacity does not preclude re-litigation in their personal capacity”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] judgment against a government does not bind its officials sued in their personal capacities.”
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.