Landa v. Isern’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1987
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Charles E. Harding Co. v. Harding
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, this alleged ground of recovery not only ignores the rule that the [earlier] judgment imports absolute verity to every proposition essential to its existence, but it proceeds on a positive denial of essential elements thereof. Therefore, as pleaded, it is not an independent ground of recovery, and it is not sufficient to render inapplicable the principle of estoppel arising from that judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * the judgment in that suit estops the Iserns only as to those issues actually and necessarily litigated there which are essential to a judgment here."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrell v. Harrell
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.