Meeker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Koenig v. Perez (1986), Chavez v. Chenoweth (1976)
36 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 State Corp. Commission v. Federal Power Commission · Agnew v. Libby · 117 Cal. App. 2d 319 - Stafford v. Russell · Henderson v. United States Radiator Corp. · Homestake Mining Company and Homestake-New Mexico Partners v. Mid-Continent Exploration Company, Rio De Oro Uranium Mines, Inc. v. Homestake Mining Company, J. H. Whitney & Co., White, Weld & Co., and San Jacinto Petroleum Corp. v. Homestake Mining Company, United Western Minerals Company v. Rio De Oro Uranium Mines, Inc., J. H. Whitney & Co., White, Weld & Co., San Jacinto Petroleum Corp., Clyde Osborn, and Homestake Mining Company, Homestake Mining Company v. Rio De Oro Uranium Mines, Inc., United Western Minerals Company, J. H. Whitney & Co., White, Weld & Co., San Jacinto Petroleum Corp., and Clyde Osborn
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Any right, fact’or matter in issue and directly adjudicated or necessarily involved in the determination of an action before a competent court in which a judgment or decree has been rendered upon the merits, is conclusively settled! by the judgment therein and cannot again be litigated by the same parties and their privies, whether the claim, demand, purpose or subject-matter of the two suits is the same or not.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Miller
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.