Hauser v. Mealey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Charchenko v. City of Stillwater (1995), Ellis v. Minneapolis Commission on Civil Rights (1982)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 65 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 Youngstown Mines Corp. v. Prout · Loomis v. Loomis · Shimp Ex Rel. Shimp v. Sederstrom · Gollner v. Cram · William Weisman Holding Co. v. Miller
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] judgment on the merits constitutes an absolute bar to a second suit for the same cause of action, and is conclusive between parties and privies, not only as to every matter which was actually litigated, but also as to every matter which might have been litigated therein.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he principle of collateral estoppel operates as to matters which were actually litigated and determined by, and essential to, a previous judgment, irrespective of whether the subsequent action is predicated upon the same or a different cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessary and essential to the resulting judgment.”
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.