Dixon v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1914
11 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 Aurora City v. West · Burlen v. Shannon · Irvine v. Irvine · People Ex Rel. Reilly v. Johnson · Demarest v. . Darg
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without undertaking to lay down any general rule, applicable to all eases, by which to determine what questions are, and what are not, settled by a former adjudication, it will be sufficient for the purposes of this case, to say that in order that a judgment in a former action should bind parties and privies, by way of estoppel, in a subsequent action, it must have directly decided a point which was material in such former action, and is in litigation in the latter.””
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.