De Watteville v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Cressler v. Brown (1920), Rodgers v. Higgins (1994)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Whitney v. Wenman · Railroad Company v. National Bank · Keokuk Co v. State of Missouri · Jennet Smith Calvin Powe and Thomas Powe v. Joseph Kernochen · Dull v. Blackman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * A test of mutuality being found in inquiring whether the judgment would have been binding on the party urging it as res judicata if it had been against him or the party favored by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Colbert““It being a general rule that a judgment in an action commenced subsequently to a purchase of real estate is not binding upon the purchasers not parties thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackwell v. McCall
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.