Barrow v. Pritchard

How courts have described this case

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

• “Collateral estoppel is mutual if the one taking advantage of the earlier adjudication would have been bound by it, had it gone against him.”
• \[M]utuality of estoppel is 15 not necessary before a defendant in a legal malpractice action can use the defense of collateral estoppel.\
• “Crossover estoppel, which involves the preclusion of an issue in a civil proceeding after a criminal proceeding and vice versa, is permissible.”
• “collateral estoppel precludes relitigation of an issue in a subsequent, different cause of action between the same parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).