Katz v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In respect to the first phase in which the question of estoppel presents itself, it is entirely settled that after one judicial determination by a court of competent jurisdiction, a second suit for the same matter, between the same parties or their privies, cannot be relitigated in the same or any other court. Nor does it matter that, in the first suit, evidence existed which was withheld or undiscovered, or that the law was misconceived by the court, or left un-cited by counsel, or that no defense was made and judgment went by default, or that only one.of several defenses was interposed by the defendant; in spite of any of these defects in the prosecution or defense of the action, the judgment stands as an absolute bar against a second litigation of the same cause of action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crispino v. Chemical Bank New Jersey, N.A. (In Re Crispino)