Sarson v. Maccia’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1946
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 · Packet Company v. Sickles · Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam-Packet Co. v. Sickles · 80 N.J. Eq. 565 - In re Walsh's Estate · Mayor of Paterson v. Baker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Res adjudicata by a decree in equity is, doubtless, pleadable in the action at law, but the party holding the decree is not driven to that defense. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.