Campbell v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Furthermore, there is not an adequate opportunity of cross-examination unless on the former occasion of litigation the issues and the parties were substantially the same as in the present case. As to the issues, the material inquiry is whether the present topic was then a subject of investigation; e.g., if the then litigation concerned Blackacre and the present litigation concerns Whiteacre, but the controversy in both is whether John Doe is Richard Roe's heir, the rule is satisfied, but, if, though the same act of taking is involved, the charge in one case is larceny of a horse, and in the other larceny of a weapon, the rule might not be regarded as satisfied. The application of the principle will depend chiefly on the circumstances of each case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Lee