Austin v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true that the plaintiff was not estopped by the judgment in his first action from asserting an independent title acquired afterward (Comm’rs of Marion Co. v. Welch, 40 Kan. 767 ), but it prevented him from thereafter asserting a claim of title which he held while the action was pending and prior to the judgment. . . . A multiplicity of suits should be avoided if possible, and a party must present whatever evidence he may have to support his claim, on peril of losing it; and in an action to recover real property he should file supplemental pleadings, if necessary, to avail himsélf of such evidence.” (p. 624.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Steele v. Stevenson