Mills v. Des Arc Convalescent Home’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 823 · 1989
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Williams v. Little Rock Municipal Water Works (1994), Lane v. Peterson (1990)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on City of St. Louis v. Thomas W. Garland, Inc. · Nilsen v. City of Moss Point · Poe v. John Deere Co. · Headley v. Bacon · Myers v. Bull
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claims in both of Mill’s suits emerge from the same transaction and share precisely the same nucleus of operative facts. Both are based on Mills’s alleged wrongful termination from employment as a result of racial discrimination. Therefore, the prior judgment in the Title VII suit barred the section 1981 suit against the same parties or their privies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“res judicata bars [future litigation of] all claims that could have been advanced in support of a previously adjudicated cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Ashcroft
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.