Lane v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 737 · 1990
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Eubanks v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1992), Herrmann v. Cencom Cable Associates, Inc. (1993)
57 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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 11 U.S.C. § 1127 · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 152 · 18 U.S.C. § 154 · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Marino v. United States
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arises out of the same nucleus of operative facts as the prior claim.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Res judicata bars relitigation of a claim if: (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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to see [the] claim in factual terms and to make it coterminous with the transaction regardless of the number of substantive theories, or variant forms of relief flowing from those theories, that may be available to the plaintiff; regardless of the number of primary rights that may have been invaded; and regardless of the variations in the evidence needed to support the theories or rights. The transaction is the basis of the litigative unit or entity which may not be split.”
3 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.