Stevenson v. Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Safeguard Mutual Insurance v. Williams (1975), Posternack v. Am. Cas. Co. of Reading (1966)
9 federal appellate · 121 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 Hochman v. Mortgage Finance Corp. · Burke v. Pittsburgh Limestone Corp. · Stevenson v. Stein · Goldstein v. Ahrens · Fisher Building Permit Case
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general principle of public policy . . . the rule [of res judicata] should not be defeated by minor differences of form, parties, or allegations, when these are constrived only to obscure the real purpose, — a second trial on the same cause between the same parties. The thing which the court will consider is whether the ultimate and controlling issues have been decided in a prior proceeding in which the present parties actually had an opportunity to appear and assert their rights. If this be the fact, then the matter ought not to be litigated again, nor should the parties, ... by change in the character of the relief sought, be permitted to nullify the rule.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or . . . res judicata ... to prevail, there must be a concurrence of four conditions: (1) Identity in the thing sued upon or for; (2) Identity of the cause of action; (3) Identity of persons and parties to the action; and (4) Identity of the quality or capacity of the parties suing or sued. Stevenson v. Silverman, 417 Pa. 187, 190 , 208 A.2d 786, 787-8 (1965), cert. denied, 382 U.S. 833 (1965); Cameron Bank v. Aleppo Twp., 338 Pa. 300, 304 , 13 A.2d 40, 41 (1940).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a court of competent jurisdiction has determined a litigated cause on its merits, the judgment entered and not reversed on appeal is, as between the parties to the suit and their privies, final and conclusive with regard to every fact which might properly be considered in reaching a judicial determination and with regard to all points of law adjudged as those facts and points of law relate directly to the cause of action - in litigation.”
4 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.