Griggs v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 59 So. 2d 40 - Gordon v. Gordon (1952), 132 W. Va. 881 - Carter v. City of Bluefield (1949)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 In re Evans · Freudenreich v. Mayor & Council of the Borough of Fairview · Hart v. Bates · Johnston-Crews Co. v. Folk · People v. Albers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule granting conclusiveness to a judgment in regard to issues of fact which could properly have been determined in the action is limited to cases involving the same cause of action. Where a second action is upon a different claim, demand, or cause of action, the established rule is that the judgment in the first action operates as an estoppel only as to the [issues,] points or question actually litigated and determined, and not as to matters not litigated in the former action, even though such matters might properly have been determined therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Clayton
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.