Arsenault v. Carrier

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that no privity exists between parent and child, and a suit by the former cannot extinguish or prejudice any existing cause of action in the latter
• child’s subsequent suit not barred because privity not present in relationship between parent and child
• under previous Maine bastardy statute minor child could not have been a party to prior action so as to be bound by the settlement agreement between his mother and putative father; child not in privity with mother in former action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Com., Dept. of Social Services v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 94×
• Hossler Ex Rel. Dows v. Barry
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-06-26· cited 71×
• Johnson v. Norman
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1981-05-20· cited 65×
• Johnson v. Hunter
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-11-09· cited 54×
• G.E.B. v. S.R.W.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-26· cited 51×
• State ex rel. Division of Human Services ex rel. Mary C.M. v. Benjamin P.B.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-06-28· cited 51×
• Department of Revenue v. Jarvenpaa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-23· cited 45×
• T.R. v. A.W. Ex Rel. Pearson
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1984-10-31· cited 34×
• S.O.V. v. People ex rel. M.C.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1996-04-08· cited 25×
• Brown v. Osier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-07-09· cited 24×
• E.I.B. v. J.R.B.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1992-08-05· cited 22×
• Glover v. Narick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-01-10· cited 21×
• Northeast Harbor Golf Club, Inc. v. Town of Mount Desert
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-12-30· cited 19×
• Tungate v. Gardner
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2002-05-29· cited 10×
• State Department of Human Services v. Webster
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-03-02· cited 9×
• Harrington v. Inhabitants of Town of Garland, Me.
  D. Maine· 1982-12-09· cited 7×
• SOV v. People in Interest of MC
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1996-04-08· cited 5×
• State Ex Rel. DHS v. Benjamin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-06-28· cited 4×
• McKee v. Wilmarth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1987-04-28· cited 3×
• Kellman v. Department of Mental Health & Corrections
  D. Maine· 1985-06-12· cited 1×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Whitehead v. General Telephone Co.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1969-12-17· cited 319×
• Cianchette v. Verrier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1959-05-08· cited 26×
• Pendexter v. Pendexter
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-09-07· cited 25×
• Stevens v. Kelley
  California Court of Appeal· 1943-02-24· cited 24×
• White v. Shalit
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1938-10-08· cited 23×
• Everett v. Everett
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-04-05· cited 22×
• Thut v. Grant
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-08-24· cited 21×
• Lawrence Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Boyd
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1971-07-16· cited 18×
• State v. Bowen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-07-06· cited 17×
• Ayer v. Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1932-12-12· cited 15×
• Fox v. Hohenshelt
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1974-12-09· cited 14×
• Walker v. Walker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-09-19· cited 13×
• Buzzell v. Buzzell
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1967-12-01· cited 11×
• Savage v. North Anson Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1924-06-05· cited 11×
• Burns v. Baldwin-Doherty Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1934-01-19· cited 11×
• Reynolds v. Richardson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-06-26· cited 11×
• Huard v. Pion
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1953-07-10· cited 10×
• Pettengill v. Gilman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1967-08-15· cited 7×
• Detore v. Demers Bros.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-12-21· cited 7×
• Sayre v. Crews
  Fifth Circuit· 1950-10-26· cited 6×