Meier v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Niedringhaus v. Commissioner (1992), Monahan v. Commissioner (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Welch v. Helvering · Allen v. McCurry · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Holland v. United States
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Collateral estoppel and the related doctrine of res judicata have the dual purpose of protecting litigants from the burden of relitigating an identical issue and of promoting judicial economy by preventing unnecessary or redundant litigation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Collateral estoppel may be utilized in connection with matters of law, matters of fact, and mixed matters of law and fact.”
2 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.