Aliff’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Coyne & Delany Co. v. Selman (1996), United States v. Gurley (1994)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Montana v. United States · Brown III v. Felsen · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · United States v. Owens · Southern Pacific Railroad 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a judgment on the merits in a prior suit resolving (2) claims by the same parties or their privies, and (3) a subsequent suit based on the same cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no simple test to determine what constitutes the same cause of action for res judicata purposes. Each case presents different facts that must be assessed within the conceptual framework of the doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Judy v. Judy“arises out of the same transaction or series of transactions as the claim resolved by the prior judgment.”
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.