Ropacki v. Ropacki’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 136 Ill. App. 3d 129 - Northern Illinois Medical Center v. Home State Bank (1985), Butcher v. United Electric Coal Co. (1949)
7 federal appellate · 19 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 Sarah v. Read · Potter v. Clapp · Gladville v. McDole · Larmon v. Knight · Svalina v. Saravana
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of res judicata is based upon the principle that a matter, whether consisting of one or many questions, which has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be deemed finally and conclusively settled, except upon a direct review, in any subsequent litigation between the same parties in which the same question or questions arise. [Citations.] In case the former adjudication is relied upon as an absolute bar, there must be, as between the two actions, identity of parties, subject matter and cause of action.””
1 later decision 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.