Webb v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A broader aspect of this same doctrine is that a judgment rendered on the merits by a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and parties is conclusive on the rights of the parties and their privies in another action, not only on the points upon which the court was required by the parties to form an opinion and pronounce judgment but as to every point which properly belonged to the subject matter being litigated and which the parties, by reasonable diligence, might have brought forward.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Decker