McDowell v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5505
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Montana v. United States · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Hansberry v. Lee · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the doctrine of res judicata, a judgment entered on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction in a prior suit involving the same parties or their privies settles that cause of action and precludes further claims by the parties or their privies based on the same cause of action, including the issues actually litigated and determined in that suit, as well as those which might have been litigated or adjudicated therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winslow v. Brown
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.