Willhauck v. Halpin’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 689 · 1991
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Watterson v. Page (1993), Grella v. Salem Five Cent Savings Bank (1994)
70 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Younger v. Harris · North Carolina v. Pearce · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that a federal court in a § 1983 action must give full preclusive effect to state court judgments adjudicating both issues and claims. See Arecibo Radio Corp. v. Puerto Rico, 825 F.2d 589, 591-92 (1st Cir.1987). See also Cuesnongle v. Ramos, 835 F.2d 1486 , 1497 n. 8 (1st Cir.1987); Cinelli v. City of Revere, 820 F.2d 474, 479 (1st Cir.1987) (citing Allen v. McCurry, 449 U.S. 90 , 101 S.Ct. 411 , 66 L.Ed.2d 308 (1980)); Isaac v. Schwartz, 706 F.2d 15, 16 (1st Cir.1983). The Supreme Court has held that under the federal full faith and credit statute, [ 28 U.S.C. § 1738 ] federal courts in § 1983 actions must accord the same preclusive effect to state court judgments — both as to claims and issues previously adjudicated — as would be given in the state court system in which the federal court sits. Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Education, 465 U.S. 75, 83-84 , 104 S.Ct. 892, 897-98 , 79 L.Ed.2d 56 (1984). The Court has rejected the notion that in the § 1983 context, “distrust of state courts ... would justify a limitation on the preclusive effect of state judgments,” and has instead stressed the need to accommodate “notions of comity, [and to] ... prevent vexatious litigation.” Migra, 465 U.S. at 84 , 104 S.Ct. at 898 . Federal courts must therefore look to state law to determine whether a party to a § 1983 action will be barred from relitigating an issue previously presented in state court (issue preclusion), or from raising a claim that could ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he full faith and credit statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1738, requires us to give 'the same preclusive effect to state court judgments--both as to claims and issues previously adjudicated--as would be given in the state court system in which the federal court sits.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Ordinarily, a claim of selective prosecution requires a showing that the challenged decision to prosecute had a discriminatory effect and that it was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.... In this circuit, we have consistently required that such a claim be supported by a showing that the decision to prosecute was an intentional form of discrimination against the defendant. ... It must be shown that others similarly situated have not been prosecuted and that the decision to prosecute has been motivated by an impermissible reason.” Willhauck v. Halpin, 953 F.2d 689, 711-712 (1st Cir.1991) (internal quotations marks and citations omitted).”
1 later decision 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.