428 So. 2d 1355 - Coffil v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Herlitz Const. Co., Inc. v. Hotel Investors of New Iberia, Inc. · 340 So. 2d 287 - Mitchell v. Bertolla · 311 So. 2d 248 - Sliman v. McBee · 362 So. 2d 758 - Sewell v. Argonaut Southwest Ins. Co. · City of New Orleans v. Westwego Canal & Terminal Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“"We second observe the necessity ... to examine the first lawsuit to determine what was there at issue, actually decided, and therefore a thing adjudged that may not be questioned by another lawsuit." Id. at 1357.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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