Patterson v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Wright v. Castles (1986), 7 Va. App. 614 - Com., Dept. of Social Services v. Johnson (1989)
22 federal appellate · 50 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 Souffront v. La Compagnie Des Sucreries De Porto Rico · United States v. California Bridge & Construction Co. · OA PATTERSON v. Rosetta Anderson · Ward v. Charlton · Pickeral v. Federal Land Bank
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally held that “ ‘privity’ means a mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property, or such an identification in interest of one person with another as to represent the same legal rights, and the term ‘privy,’ when applied to a judgment or decree refers to one whose interest has been legally represented at the trial.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“precludes relitigation of a claim or issue once a final determination on the merits has been reached by a court of competent jurisdiction. It rests upon the principle that a person should not be required to relitigate the same matter a second time “with the same person or another so identified in interest with such person that he represents the same legal right, precisely the same question, particular controversy, or issue, which has been necessarily tried and fully determined, upon the merits, by a court of competent jurisdiction....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he doctrine of res adjudicata is a rule of law founded on the soundest consideration of public policy. The doctrine is founded upon two maxims of law, one of which is that "a man should not be twice vexed for the same cause;" the other is that "it is for the public good that there be an end of litigation."”
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.