How v. Mars’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Central States Resources, Corp. v. First National Bank · Howard v. City of Lincoln · In Re Estate of Seidler · Rosse v. Rosse · National American Insurance Co. of Nebraska, Inc. v. Continental Western Insurance
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the identical issue was decided in a prior action; (2) there was a judgment on the merits which was final; (3) the party against whom the rule is applied was a party or in privity with a party to the prior action; and (4) there was an opportunity to fully and fairly litigate the issue in the prior action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Nebraska
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.