Lee v. Spoden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A party whose claim for relief arising from identified conduct, a transaction, or an occurrence, is decided on the merits by a final judgment, shall be forever barred from prosecuting any second or subsequent civil action against the same opposing party or parties on any claim or cause of action that arises from that same conduct, transaction or occurrence, whether or not the legal theory or rights asserted in the second or subsequent action were raised in the prior lawsuit, and regardless of the legal elements or the evidence upon which any claims in the prior proceeding depended, or the particular remedies sought.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Garner · Funny Guy, LLC v. Lecego, LLC

2. “a final judgment forecloses 'successive litigation of the very same claim, whether or not relitigation of the claim raises the same issues as the earlier suit.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Garner · D'Ambrosio v. Wolf

3. “the same cause of action or any part thereof which could have been litigated in the previous action.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Garner · D'Ambrosio v. Wolf