Clay v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1964
14 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 Fulton v. Teager · Elswick v. Matney · Roy v. West · Clay v. Clay's Committee · Vincent v. Blanton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not essential to the creation of an adjudicata estoppel that the matter which the litigant is thereafter prevented from relitigating should be expressly discussed or settled in the determination of the first case from which the estoppel arose. It is only necessary that the matter should be presented by the pleadings in that case between the same parties, and it will be deemed as adjudicated between the parties when it is not mentioned as effectually as if it had been expressly determined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Fugate
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.