McDowell v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is conclusive between the parties and their privies in a subsequent action involving the same subject matter, not only as to all the matters litigated and determined in the former action, but also as to all matters germane to issues which could or might have been litigated therein.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jarrett v. Gramling

2. “prevents a party from raising an issue in a later action if that issue could have been litigated in the prior proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arkla Energy Resources Division of Arkla Inc v. Roye Realty and Developing Inc