Bata v. Bata’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Bata v. Central-Penn Nat. Bank of Phila. (1966), Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Co. (1990)
6 district · 43 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 · Hilton v. Guyot · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Schuylkill Fuel Corp. v. B. & C. Nieberg Realty Corp. · Evergreens v. Nunan
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule of collateral estoppel, often difficult of application to domestic judgments ..., presents additional difficulties when sought to be applied to foreign judgments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e entertain no doubt that a foreign judgment, given by a court under a system of law reasonably insuring notice and hearing ... is res judicata in Delaware, despite a dictum to the contrary in an early Delaware case. See Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113 [ 16 S.Ct. 139 , 40 L.Ed. 95 ] (1895),....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that is to say, I agreed and purchased as per oral agreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bata v. Bata
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.