Evans v. Moffat’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1981
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Beaver County Building & Loan Ass'n v. Winowich · Burke v. Pittsburgh Limestone Corp. · Siegfried v. Boyd · Fischer & Porter Co. v. Porter · Waschak v. Moffat
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decision in the Waschak case is by no means res judicata of the issues in the cases now before us. At least one, if not more, of the requisites of the doctrine is absent. Specifically, there is a patent want of identity of parties plaintiff in the Waschak and other cases. . . . “So far as the decision in the Waschak case has any bearing on the instant actions, it is at most stare decisis as to the applicability of §822(d) of the Restatement, Torts. It does not constitute an adjudication of the facts at issue which, in each case, are for the court below, as the fact-finder, to resolve as well as determine preliminarily what are matters of fact as distinguished from matters of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. MOFFAT
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.