Daoust v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Colon v. Board of Education (2000), Krondes v. Norwalk Savings Society (1999)
2 district · 50 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Connell v. Colwell · DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven · Home Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Mulligan v. Rioux
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cause of action [to which res judicata applies] is that single group of facts which is claimed to have brought about an unlawful injury to the plaintiff and which entitles the plaintiff to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even though a single group of facts may give rise to rights for several different kinds of relief, it is still a single cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is evident that both the initial suit filed in the federal court and the subsequent suit filed in the Superior Court constitute the same cause of action, although they may involve different claims for relief. Both state that the actions giving rise to the lawsuit took place on the same date and describe the same event. The trial court's memorandum of decision describes both the federal and state law claims as arising from the same incident, which occurred on July 7, 1992.”
1 later decision 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.