445 So. 2d 105 - Lowe v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In essence plaintiffs are arguing that the Federal decision is wrong and that this Court should correct it. That issue is closed. Matters that are finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be called into question again by the parties notwithstanding that the judgment may have been erroneous and was subject to reversal on appeal. Plaintiffs did not appeal the federal adjudication. * * * * * * A court of competent jurisdiction (the Federal District Court) has ruled that the relief plaintiffs' [sic] seek is barred by prescription. When no appeal was taken from that judgment, it became final. This matter cannot be litigated again, it is res judicata. (citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 558 So. 2d 715 - Fust v. Fontenelle

2. “The authority of the thing adjudged takes place only with respect to what was the object of the judgment. The thing demanded must be the same; the demand must be founded on the same cause of action; the demand must be between the same parties, and formed by them against each other in the same quality.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 633 So. 2d 237 - Doe v. Our Lady of the Lake Hosp.