Clark v. Whitfield’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Crowson v. Cody (1926), Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Murphy (1936)
79 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 Hodge v. Joy · Hackett v. Cash · Sandlin v. Anders · Andrews v. Grey · Caples v. Young
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person who can claim the benefit of a judgment as an estoppel [res judicata] upon his adversary is one who would have been prejudiced by a contrary decision in the [first] case.”
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.