Merle v. Ringwald’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “Under the doctrine of res judicata (“claim preclusion”), a final judgment on the merits of an action bars the parties from relitigating not only the adjudicated claim but also any theories or issues that were actually decided or could have been decided in that action. Wilson v. Kane, 852 P.2d 717, 722 (Okla.1993). Under collateral estoppel (“issue preclusion”), once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that issue may not be relitigated between the same parties or their privies in a future suit on a different cause of action. Benham v. Plotner, 795 P.2d 510, 512 (Okla.1990). The “settled-law-of-the-case” doctrine bars re-litigation of only those issues which were actually settled by a prior appellate opinion. Willis v. Nowata Land and Cattle Company, Inc., 789 P.2d 1282 (Okla.1989).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brumark Corp. v. Corporation Commission