11 Va. App. 341 - Slagle v. Slagle’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
34
cited by 34 later decisions
3
states following
April 2009
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
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Most-quoted passages
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“A fundamental precept of common-law adjudication, embodied in the related doctrines of collateral estoppel and res judicata, is that a “right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction . .. cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Taylor
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