Gates v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2015
1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006)
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · Allen v. McCurry · Wilson v. Garcia · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Griffith v. Kentucky
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Privity, succession of interest, and relationship are terms used to express the identity of parties required for the application of res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil cases arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.”
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.