Nordhorn v. Ladish Co.’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 1402 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Shaw v. Hahn (1995), DiLoreto v. Downey Unified School District Board of Education (1999)
22 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Dixson v. United States · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. United States · Aerojet-General Corp. v. Askew · Griggs, Cooper & Co. v. Novak
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether rights or interests established in the prior judgment would be destroyed or impaired by prosecution of the second action; (2) whether substantially the same evidence is presented in the two actions; (3) whether the two suits involve infringement of the same right; and (4) whether the two suits arise out of the same transactional nucleus of facts.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when two parties are so closely aligned in interest that one is the virtual representative of the other.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to bar a later suit under the doctrine of res judicata, an adjudication must (1) involve the same 'claim' as the later suit, (2) have reached a final judgment on the merits, and (3) involve the same parties or their privies.”
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.