Ealy v. McGahen’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably McLeod v. PROVIDENT MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. OF PHILA. (1974), Bourgeious v. Santa Fe Trail Stages, Inc. (1939)
26 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 Fullen v. Fullen · Cross v. Gould · State ex rel. Ozark County v. Tate · Kerr v. Southwest Flourite Co. · Downing v. Still
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Final judgments are conclusive as to the claim or demand in controversy as to the parties in the suit and those in privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose. Public policy requires that there be an end to litigation and that rights once established by a final judgment shall not again be litigated in any subsequent proceeding. “We have held, and rightly: ‘It (the judgment) is a finality as to the claim or demand in controversy, ' concluding parties and those in privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose. * * * ’ ””
2 later decisions 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.