Fowler v. Vineyard’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably CoreStates Bank, N.A. v. Huls America, Inc. (1999), Lops v. Lops (1998)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 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 Marchman & Sons, Inc. v. Nelson · Rowland v. Vickers · Citizens Exchange Bank of Pearson v. Kirkland
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or a prior action to bar a subsequent action under the doctrine of res judicata, several requirements must be met: The first action must have involved an adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction; the two actions must have an identity of parties and subject matter; and the party against whom the doctrine of res judicata is raised must have had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issues in the first action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.