Sayward v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Hisle v. Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. (2004), 106 Wash. 2d 855 - Schoeman v. New York Life Insurance (1986)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · First National Bank of Madison v. Damm · Sayward v. Nunan · Yenni v. . McNamee · Shaw v. Wilshire
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general doctrine is that the plea of res judicata applies, except in special cases, not only to points upon which the court was actually required by the parties to form an opinion and pronounce a judgment, but to every point which properly belonged to the subject of litigation, and which the parties, exercising reasonable diligence, might have brought forward at the time.””
6 later decisions 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.