No. 87-2497’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Retired Chicago Police Association Carepac v. City of Chicago M, Meyer v. Rigdon (1994)
5 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
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Parker v. Brown · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'which refers to the effect of a judgment in foreclosing litigation in a subsequent action of an issue of law or fact that has been actually litigated and decided in the initial action.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Rigdon · Meyer v. Rigdon“'the preclusive effect of a judgment in foreclosing litigation of matters that were or could have been raised in an earlier suit.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Rigdon · Meyer v. Rigdon“a final judgment on the merits rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction bars any subsequent actions between the same parties or their privies on the same cause of action.”
1 later decision 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.