Dotson v. Harman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2004
16 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 Bates v. Devers · Wright v. Castles · Mowry v. City of Virginia Beach · Burks Bros. of Virginia, Inc. v. Jones · Greene v. Warrenton Production Credit Ass'n
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the fundamental prerequisites to the application of the doctrine of res judicata is that there must be an identity of parties between the present suit and the prior litigation asserted as a bar. A party to the present suit, to be barred by the doctrine, must have been a party to the prior litigation, or represented by another so identified in interest with him that he represents the same legal right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]our preclusionary effects [are] embraced by the doctrine of res judicata: (1) res judicata -bar, (2) merger, (3) direct estoppel, and (4) collateral estoppel.”
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.