McDowell v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1947
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 Aspden v. Nixon · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rld. v. Comm'rs of Jefferson Co. · Smith v. Auld · Hoisington v. Brakey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that to sustain a plea of res judicata there must be a concurrence of four conditions: First, identity in the thing sued for; second, identity of the cause of action; third, identity of persons and parties to the action; fourth, identity of the quality in the persons for or against whom the claim is made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Parmalee
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.