Thomas v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2019
6 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 Montana v. United States · Aerojet-General Corp. v. Askew · Southwest Airlines Co. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. · Johnson v. State · 566 So. 2d 723 - Dairyland Ins. Co. v. Jackson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the same cause of action is alleged in the original lawsuit and the subsequent lawsuit depends upon whether the issues in the two causes of action are the same and whether the same evidence would support a recovery in both lawsuits. Dominex, Inc. v. Key, 456 So.2d 1047 (Ala.1984). ‘Regardless of the form of the action, the issue is the same when it is supported in both actions by substantially the same evidence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the party who asserted the res judicata defense was also a party to the prior action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.