Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
959 federal appellate · 236 district · 273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,444 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), Montana v. United States (1979)
959 federal appellate · 236 district · 273 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Cromwell v. County of Sac · United States v. Columbia Steel Co. · United States v. International Building Co. · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.
Cited together with Commissioner v. Sunnen · Montana v. United States · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie
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 2,444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) a judgment on the merits in a prior action involving the same parties or their privies bars a second action based on the same cause of action. The bar applies not only to matters that were actually litigated but also to all claims that might have been litigated. In contrast, collateral estoppel (or”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be given the effect of extinguishing claims which did not even then exist and which could not possibly have been sued upon in the previous case.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judgment was unaccompanied by findings and hence did not bind the parties on any issue ... which might arise in connection with another cause of action.”
12 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.