King v. Grindstaff’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 253 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Matter of Ballard (1984), Thomas M. McInnis & Associates, Inc. v. Hall (1986)
7 federal appellate · 221 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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same · Masters v. Dunstan · Graham v. North Carolina Butane Gas Co.
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 253 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The issues to be concluded must be the same as those involved in the prior action; (2) in the prior action, the issues must have been raised and actually litigated; (3) the issues must have been material and relevant to the disposition of the prior action; and (4) the determination made of those issues in the prior action must have been necessary and essential to the resulting judgment.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]arties and parties in privity with them -- even in unrelated causes of action -- are precluded from retrying fully litigated issues that were decided in any prior determination and were necessary to the prior determination.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re T.N.H. · State v. Williams“"`when there has been a final judgment or decree, necessarily determining [the] fact, question or right in issue, rendered by a court of record and of competent jurisdiction, and there is a later suit involving an issue as to the identical fact, question or right theretofore determined, and involving identical parties or parties in privity with a party or parties to the prior suit.'"”
10 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.