Stevens v. McSwain’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1969
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kerl v. Smith · Gerard v. Gill · Great Southern Lumber Co. v. Newsom Bros. · Commercial Credit Co. v. Newman · Overby v. Burnham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The governing principle is stated in 50 C.J.S. Judgments, § 650, p. 92: “The estoppel of a judgment extends only to the facts and conditions as they were at the time the judgment was rendered, and to the legal rights and relations of the parties as fixed by the facts so determined; and when new facts or conditions intervene before the second suit, furnishing a new basis for the claims and defenses of the parties respectively, and issues are no longer the same, and hence the former judgment cannot be pleaded in bar in the subsequent action.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zwerg v. Zwerg
How this case has been treated — in progress
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