Wolff v. Du Puis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2006
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
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“Collateral estoppel requires identity of parties, or their privies, together with identity of one or more issues necessarily disposed of in the earlier of the two trials. Where an issue of fact, essential to the judgment, is actually litigated and determined by a valid final judgment, that determination is conclusive between the parties and their privies. Restatement, Judgments, § 68(1) (1942). * * * ⅜ * * An able jurist has said “that a man having had his day in court is collaterally estopped by the judgment rendered in the lawsuit as against his opponent. He is likewise estopped as to persons sufficiently close to that opponent to make it fair to have the estoppel run against them also. * * * Privity states no reason for including or excluding one from the estoppel of a judgment. It is merely a word used to say that the relationship between the one who is a party on the record and another is close enough to include that other within the res judicata.” Goodrich, Circuit Judge, concurring, in Bruszewski v. United States, 181 F.2d 419, 423 (3d Cir., 1950). * * * The Restatement defines privity as a word which expresses the idea that as to certain matters and in certain circumstances persons who are not parties to an action but who are connected with it in their interests are affected by the judgment with reference to interests involved in the action, as if they were parties. The word “privity” includes those who control an action although not parties to it; those whose interes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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