Mohamed v. Exxon Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2018
13 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Tafflin v. Levitt · Claflin v. Houseman · Nilsen v. City of Moss Point
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When `reasonable doubt exists as to what was decided in the first action, the doctrine of res judicata should not be applied.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.