Allen v. Moyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First, both cases must involve the same parties or their privies. Second, the claim that is alleged to be barred must have been presented in the first suit or be one that could and should have been raised in the first action. Third, the first suit must have resulted in a final judgment on the merits.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gillmor v. Family Link, LLC · Moss v. Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless

2. “[C]laim preclusion ... promote[s] finality and protect[s] litigants by ensuring that parties will have to litigate a controversy only once.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Johnson

3. “Claim preclusion corresponds to causes of action; issue preclusion corresponds to the facts and issues underlying causes of action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moss v. Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless