McFadden v. McFADDEN’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2005
8 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the concept of privity has frequently been called upon as an aid in determining who should be bound by a judgment, “privity” is not of much use as an analytical tool. If any generalization about collateral estoppel is valid, it is that a court which is satisfied that the first litigation provided substantial protection of the rights and interests of the party sought to be bound in subsequent litigation will find that the parties have been “in privity”. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the first litigation did not afford proper protection to the rights of the person sought to be bound, then the court will hold that the parties have not been `in privity'.”
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.