Hadley v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Christensen v. Grant County Hosp. Dist. (2004), Clark v. Baines (2004)
48 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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · 126 Wash. 2d 315 - State v. Olson · Reid v. Pierce County · 121 Wash. 2d 552 - Hanson v. City of Snohomish · 113 Wash. 2d 413 - Southcenter Joint Venture v. National Democratic Policy Committee
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) identical issues; (2) a final judgment on the merits; (3) the party against whom the plea is asserted must have been a party to or in privity with a party to the prior adjudication; and (4) application of the doctrine must not work an injustice on the party against whom the doctrine is to be applied.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Collateral estoppel promotes judicial economy and prevents inconvenience, and even harassment, of parties.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Collateral estoppel is, in the end, an equitable doctrine that will not be applied mechanically to work an injustice.”
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.