Dickson v. D'ANGELO’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. “describes the relationship between persons who are parties to an action and those who are not parties to an action but whose interests in the action are such that they may nevertheless be bound by the judgment in that action. Id. The term includes those who control an action, although not a party to it, and those whose interests are represented by a party to the action. Id. [21] Mother was a party to both the paternity affidavit and the prior paternity action, which determined K.B.'s paternity. We have held that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Michael Litton v. Jason Baugh

2. “(1) the former judgment must have been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (2) the former judgment must have been rendered on the merits; (3)the matter now in issue was, or could have been, determined in the prior action; and (4) the controversy decided in the former action must have been between the parties in the present suit or their privies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 215 F. Supp. 2d 1008 - Armes v. Noble County Sheriff Department