Cater v. Cater’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Smith v. Hansen (1996), 55 Ark. App. 275 - Coleman's Service Center, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1996)
6 federal appellate · 43 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 Ray Dodge, Inc. v. Moore · Liles v. Liles · Viking Ins. Co. of Wisconsin v. Jester · Interstate Freeway Services, Inc. v. Houser · Bailey v. Harris Brake Fire Protection District
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctrine bars not only the relitigation of claims which were actually litigated in the first suit, but those which could have been litigated.”
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.