Bates v. Devers’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Wright v. Castles (1986), Selected Risks Insurance v. Dean (1987)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 222 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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · Spilker v. Hankin
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" Res judicata-bar, is the particular preclusive effect commonly meant by use of the term `res judicata'. A valid, personal judgment on the merits in favor of defendant bars relitigation of the same cause of action, or any part thereof which could have been litigated, between the same parties and their privies."”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Collateral estoppel is the preclusive effect impacting in a subsequent action based upon a collateral and different cause of action. In the subsequent action, the parties to the first action and their privies are precluded from litigating any issue of fact actually litigated and essential to a valid and final personal judgment in the first action.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]es judicata rests upon considerations of public policy which favor certainty in the establishment of legal relations, demand an end to litigation, and seek to prevent the harassment of parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.