Newby v. Bock’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Pomeroy v. Waitkus (1973), City of Westminster v. Church (1968)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Denver City Irrigation & Water Co. v. Middaugh · Pomponio v. Larsen · Bijou Irrigation District v. Weldon Valley Ditch Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule seems to be that if there is identity of subject matter; identity of cause of action; identity of persons to the action, and identity of capacity in the persons for which or against whom the claim is made, that these four identities existing, a prior judgment is conclusive not only as to every question actually presented and decided, but also as to every question within the issues which might have been presented and determined. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Gutierrez
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.