Central Transport, Inc. v. Four Phase Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 256 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Nance v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2008), Ramsay v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1994)
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · United States v. Stauffer Chemical Co. · Canderm Pharmacal, Ltd. v. Elder Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the issue in the instant case is the same as in the prior litigation; (2) the issue was litigated in the prior adjudication; (3) the determination of the issue in the prior adjudication was a critical and necessary part of the judgment in that action; and (4) the party against whom the earlier decision is asserted had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior litigation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the party against whom estoppel is sought was a party or in privity with a party to the prior action; (2) there was a final judgment on the merits in the previous case after a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue; (3) the issue must have been admitted or actually tried and decided and must be necessary to the final judgment; and (4) the issue must have been identical to the issue involved in the prior suit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.