Campbell v. Rankin’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 261 · 1878
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999 · most notably Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States (1897), Southern Pac Co v. United States
21 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 · Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam-Packet Co. v. Sickles · Miles v. Caldwell · Attwood & Walker v. Fricot
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Whatever had been the opinion of other courts, it has been the doctrine of this court in regard to suits on contracts, ever since the case of Steam-packet Co. v. Sickles, 24 How. 338 , and, in regard to actions affecting real estate, since Miles v. Caldwell, 2 Wall. 35 , that whenever the same question has been in issue and tried and judgment rendered, it is conclusive of the issue so decided in any subsequent suit between the same parties; and also that where, from the nature of the pleadings, it would be left in doubt on what precise issue the verdict or judgment was rendered, it is competent to ascertain this by parol evidence on the second trial. The latest expression of the doctrine is found in Cromwell v. County of Sac, 94 U. S. 351 ; Davis v. Drown, 94 U. S. 423 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Now, that a judgment in a suit between two parties is conclusive in any other , suit between them, or their privies, of every matter that was decided therein, and that was essential to the decision made, is a doctrine too familiar to need citation of authorities in its support. A few cases go further, and rule that it is conclusive of matters incidentally cognizable, if they were in fact decided. To this wc do not assent. But it is certain that a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is everywhere conclusive evidence of every fact upon which it must necessarily have been founded.””
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.