Stevens v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Phelan v. Superior Court (1950), Armstrong v. Armstrong (1976)
30 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 Taylor v. Taylor · Security-First National Bank v. Superior Court · Parsons v. Weis · 18 Cal. 2d 302 - Watson v. Poore · Kyne v. Kyne
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs rights, having been determined in an action in her behalf brought by her mother, cannot be again litigated in an action brought by her guardian ad litem.... If the present judgment were allowed to stand, we would have two judgments of the same court, adjudicating identical rights between the same parties in interest, the second the exact opposite of the first. Both cannot be valid. Where the defense of former adjudication was pleaded and the earlier of the judgments was established by sufficient proof, it had to prevail over the later judgment unless it was ... vulnerable to attack upon equitable grounds.”
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.