Painter v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 329 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Penobscot Indian Nation v. Key Bank (1997), Vanguard Research, Inc. v. Peat, Inc. (2002)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Baker v. Gold Seal Liquors, Inc. · Southern Construction Co. v. Pickard
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Are the issues of fact and law raised in the claim and counterclaim largely the same? (2) Would res judicata bar a subsequent suit on the party’s counterclaim, absent the compulsory counterclaim rule? (3) Will substantially the same evidence support or refute the claim as well as the counterclaim? and (4) Is there any logical relationship between the claim and counterclaim?”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Compulsory Counterclaims. A pleading shall state as a counterclaim any claim which at the time of serving the pleading the pleader has against any opposing party, if it arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party’s”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] court need not answer all these questions in the affirmative for the counterclaim to be compulsory.”
2 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.