R.W. v. Schrein’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marx v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company · Roe v. Federal Insurance · New Mexico Physicians Mutual Liability Co. v. LaMure · Cincinnati Insurance v. Becker Warehouse, Inc. · Farmers Union Cooperative Insurance v. Allied Property & Casualty 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he doctrine of res judicata applies to bar relitigation of a matter that has been directly addressed or necessarily included in a former adjudication if (1) the former judgment was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, (2) the former judgment was a final judgment, (3)the former judgment was on the merits, and (4) the same parties or their privies were involved in both actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]rivity requires, at a minimum, a substantial identity between the issues in controversy and [a] showing [that] the parties in the two actions are really and substantially in interest the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrington v. Strong
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.