Adams v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably Torres v. Village of Capitan (1978), Adams v. UNITED STEELWORKERS, ETC. (1982)
39 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 Medler v. Henry · Paulos v. Janetakos · Adams v. Cox · Lindauer Mercantile Co. v. Boyd · Adams v. Cox
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To make a matter res judicata there must be a concurrence of the four conditions following, viz.: First, identity of the subject-matter; second, identity of cause of action; third, identity of persons and parties; and, fourth, identity in the quality of the persons for or against whom claim is made.”
2 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.