Helen Churches Peffer v. Charles E. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 1323 · 1975
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Rogers (1992), McKibben v. Chubb (1988)
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 Pomeroy v. Waitkus · United States Nat. Bank of Denver v. Bartges · McGregor v. McGregor · McGregor v. McGregor
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the issue previously decided is identical with the one presented in the action in question, (2) the prior action has been finally adjudicated on the merits, (3) the party against whom the doctrine is in-voked was a party or in privity with a party to the prior adjudication, and (4) the party against whom the doctrine is raised had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Was the issue decided in the prior adjudication identical with the one presented in the action in question? (2) Was there a final judgment on the merits? (3) Was the party against whom the plea is asserted a party or in privity to a party to the prior adjudication? (4) Did the party against whom the plea is asserted have a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issues in the prior adjudication?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant intentionally interfered with the giving or leaving of property to the plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKibben v. Chubb
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.