Petrus v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003 · most notably Haring v. Prosise (1983), Bates v. Devers (1974)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Russell v. Place · Good Health Dairy Products Corp. v. Emery · Todhunter v. Smith · Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea of res judicata or estoppel of record may be successfully invoked upon a final judgment or decree of a court of inferior or limited jurisdiction, as well as upon the judgment or decree of a court of record of general jurisdiction, provided the inferior court had jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject matter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o render the judgment conclusive, it must appear by the record of the prior suit that the particular matter sought to be concluded was necessarily tried or determined,—that is, that the verdict could not have been rendered without deciding that matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.