Choate v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is said in 15 R. C. L., page 962, sections 438 and 439: ‘When the second suit is between the same parties as the first, and on the same cause of action, the judgment in the former is conclusive in the latter, not only as to every question which was decided, but also as to every other matter which the parties might have litigated and had determined, within the issues as they were made or tendered by the pleadings, or as incident to or essentially connected with the subject matter of the litigation, whether the same, as a matter of fact, were or were not considered.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pickeral v. Federal Land Bank

2. ““The general rules with reference to the plea of res adjudicata apply, we think, as well to cases under Code (section 5490) as to all other cases where the same parties have litigated the same subject matter. When final adjudication has been reached in a case of this kind that is an end of it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pickeral v. Federal Land Bank