Woofenden v. Merriam’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Community National Bank v. Dawes · Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Attorney General v. Bailey · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 153 - Boyd v. Jamaica Plain Co-Operative Bank · Franklin v. North Weymouth Cooperative Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) When a valid and final judgment rendered in an action extinguishes the plaintiffs claim pursuant to the rules of merger or bar (see §§ 18,19), the claim extinguished includes all rights of the plaintiff to remedies against the defendant with respect to all or any part of the transaction, or series of connected transactions, out of which the action arose. (2) What factual grouping constitutes a ‘transaction’, and what groupings constitute a ‘series’, are to be determined pragmatically, giving weight to such consideration as whether the facts are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they form a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties expectations or business understanding or usage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Hawthorne“This is the principle prohibiting claim splitting which states that the entry of‘valid and final judgment extinguishes ... all rights of plaintiff to remedies against the defendant with respect to all or part of the transaction, or series of connected transactions, out of which the action arose.’RESTATEMENT (SECOND j OF JUDGMENTS § 61 (1) (Tent. Draft No. 5, 1978.) This principle will be applied to extinguish a claim even though the plaintiff is prepared in the second action to present evidence, grounds, or theories of the case not presented in the first action or to seek remedies or forms of relief not demanded in the first action. This policy promotes judicial economy and has been applied by our courts to bar successive actions....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Hawthorne“The law of res judication now reflects the expectation that parties who are given the capacity to present their ‘entire controversies’ shall, in fact, do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Hawthorne
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