Mattsen v. Packman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Johnson v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc. (1988), Paulucci v. City of Duluth (1987)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 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 Youngstown Mines Corp. v. Prout · Hauser v. Mealey · Thompson v. Myrick · Veline v. Dahlquist
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment on the merits constitutes an absolute bar to a second suit for the same cause of action, and is conclusive between parties and privies, not only as to every other matter which was actually litigated, but also as to every matter which might have been litigated therein.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] party who is excusably ignorant of the effect of a judgment should have [a] remedy. Relief may be had for cause; the judgment may be reopened through proceedings to vacate pursuant to Rule 60.02 * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he collision was single and, despite the different kinds of damage which the plaintiff sustained, so also was his claim. Hence, the conciliation court judgment in favor of the plaintiff extinguished his entire claim for damages arising out of the collision and precludes a subsequent action for damages by reason of the personal injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jorissen v. Miller
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.