Rawlings v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bates v. Devers · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Bailey Lumber Co. · State Water Control Board v. Smithfield Foods, Inc. · Balbir Brar Associates, Inc. v. Consolidated Trading & Services Corp. · Anderson v. Sisson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually litigated and essential to a valid and final personal judgment in the first action.”
2 later decisions 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.