Beall v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Pye v. Aycock (1997), Manufacturers & Merchants Mutual Insurance v. Harvey (1998)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 · United States v. Mendoza · 187 N.J. Super. 96 - Allesandra v. Gross · JKT Co., Inc. v. Hardwick · Graham v. State Farm Fire & 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually and necessarily litigated and determined in the first suit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o assert collateral estoppel successfully, the party seeking issue preclusion ... must show the issue was actually litigated and directly determined in the prior action and that the matter or fact directly in issue was necessary to support the first judgment.”); Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 29 cmt. a (1982) (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Hastie · Pye v. Aycock“In the abstract, there is no legitimate reason to permit a defendant who has already thoroughly and vigorously litigated an issue and lost the opportunity to relitigate the identical question, already once decided, simply because he now faces a different plaintiff who for due process reasons could not be adversely bound by the prior judgment. The public interest demands an end to the litigation of the same issue. Principles of finality, certainty, and the proper administration of justice suggest that a decision once rendered should stand unless some compelling countervailing consideration necessitates relitigation.”
3 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.