parties
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 71 U.S. 657 - Robbins v. Chicago City · 1866Most cited · 302 citing opinions
res judicata
Parties in that connection include all who are directly interested in the subject-matter, and who had a right to make defence, control the proceedings, examine and cross-examine witnesses, and appeal from the judgment. Persons not having those rights substantially are regarded as strangers to the cause, but all who are directly interested in the suit and have knowledge of its pendency, and who refuse or neglect to appear and avail themselves of those rights, are equally concluded by the proceedings.
How often courts cite the case defining “parties”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “parties” — 302 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.