Mitchell v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Res judicata is the doctrine that a right, question of fact, put in issue and determined by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be further litigated in a subsequent suit between the same parties or their privies. Davis v. First National Bank of Waco, 139 Tex. 36 , 161 S.W.2d 467 . The Rule of Res Judicata bars litigation of all issues connected with a cause of action or defense which, with use of diligence, might have been tried in a former case, as well as those which were actually tried. Ogletree v. Crates, Tex., 363 S.W.2d 431 . And the rules of res judicata rest upon the policy of protecting a party from being twice vexed for the same cause, together with that of achieving judicial economy in precluding a party who has had a fair trial from relitigating the same issue. Benson v. Wanda Petroleum Co., Tex., 468 S.W.2d 361 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pugh v. Leck