187 N.C. App. 115 - State v. Spargo’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Gross v. Irtz · State v. Parker · Schwartz v. King County Jail · Weil v. . Herring
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of collateral estoppel means simply that when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment , that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilliam v. Sealey
How this case has been treated — in progress
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