Mulrain v. Board of Selectmen’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 23 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2010
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Allen v. McCurry · Kale v. Combined Insurance Co. of America · Isaac v. Schwartz · Mulrain v. Board of Selectmen
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extinguishes ... all rights of a 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 complaint arose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tunga v. Quin“grow[ ] out of the same transaction, act, or agreement and seek[ ] redress for the same wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tunga v. Quin“must give preclusive effect to state court judgments in accordance with state law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tunga v. Quin
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.