Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 611 · 1926
Citation profile
239 federal appellate · 54 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 652 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Taylor v. Sturgell (2008)
239 federal appellate · 54 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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 Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Heckman v. United States · United States v. Moser · Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H
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 652 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Identity of parties is not a mere matter of form, but of substance. Parties nominally the same may be, in legal effect, different, . . . and parties nominally different may be, in legal effect, the same.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“irrespective of which action or proceeding was first brought, it is the first final judgment rendered in one of the courts which becomes conclusive in the other as res judicata.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . It is elementary, of course, that, in any judicial proceeding, the arrangement of the parties on the record, so long as they are adverse, or the fact that the party against whom the estoppel is pleaded was an objecting party, is of no consequence. A judgment is as binding upon an unwilling defendant as it is upon a willing plaintiff. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.