Murphy v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 682 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Herrmann v. Cencom Cable Associates, Inc. (1993), Lane v. Peterson (1990)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · Marino v. United States · Poe v. John Deere Co. · Headley v. Bacon · Ruple v. City of Vermillion
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.
““ ‘When a valid and final judgment rendered in an action extinguishes the plaintiffs claim pursuant to the rules of merger or bar ... the claim extin guished includes all rights of the plaintiff to remedies against the defendant with respect to all or any part of the transaction, or series of connected transactions, out of which the action arose.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the prior judgment was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (2) the prior judgment 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.” Lane v. Peterson, 899 F.2d 737 , 742 (8th Cir.) (citing Murphy v. Jones, 877 F.2d 682 , 684 (8th Cir.1989)), ce rt. denied, 498 U.S. 823 , 111 S.Ct. 74 , 112 L.Ed.2d 48 (1990). These three elements are satisfied in the present case. 3 . La.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 13:4232,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, are to be determined pragmatically, giving weight to such considerations as whether the facts are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they form a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties' expectations or business understanding or usage. 22 Restatement (Second) of Judgments Sec. 24 (1980). 23 With this approach to the”
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.