Eason v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Haring v. Prosise (1983), Bates v. Devers (1974)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Kemp v. Miller · Womble v. Gunter · Hogg v. Plant · Stevens v. Mirakian · Eason v. Eason
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the judgment in the former [action] is conclusive of the latter, not only as to every question which was decided, but also as to every other matter which the parties might have litigated and had determined, within the issues as they were made or tendered by the pleadings, or as incident to or essentially connected with the subject matter of the litigation, whether the same, as a matter of fact, were or were not considered.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D'Ambrosio v. Wolf · Hagen v. Hagen“[w]e do not hesitate, in a proper case, where the correct conclusion has been reached but the wrong reason given, to sustain the result and assign the right ground.”
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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haring v. Prosise
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.