Brittingham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
3
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. United States · United States v. Mazak · Bailey v. State · Hughes v. State · United States v. Pavlico
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he ‘law of the case’ doctrine ... bars relitigation [of the issue in question] where that issue has been previously decided by this Court .... [the doctrine] is flexible (unlike res judicata ...). It will not be enforced where doing so would produce an injustice. But it does apply ... unless some reason is shown for not applying it .... 38”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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