Williams v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Eurich v. Alkire (1978), Kearney v. Kansas Public Service Co. (1983)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 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 Goetz v. Board of Trustees, Policemen's & Firemen's Retirement System · Penachio v. Walker · Stroup v. Pepper · Pearlman v. Truppo · Bud Jennings Carpets & Draperies, Inc. v. Greenhouse
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a prior judgment on the merits which determined the rights and liabilities of the parties on the issue, based upon ultimate facts as disclosed by the pleadings and judgment; (2) the parties are the same or in privity; and (3) the issue was actually determined and was necessary to the support of the judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the doctrine of collateral estoppel prevents a second litigation of the same issues between the same parties or their privies even in connection with a different claim or cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judgment ordinarily settles nothing as to the relative rights and liabilities of the co-plaintiffs or co-defendants inter sese, unless their hostile or conflicting claims were actually brought to issue, litigated and determined. 50 C.J.S., Judgments, § 819. See also Restatement of Judgments, § 82”
1 later decision 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.