Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. John T. Strong

How courts have described this case

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• “Even when a counterclaim meets the ‘same transaction’ test, a party need not assert it as a compulsory counterclaim if it has not matured when the party serves his answer.”
• “As a word of flexible meaning, ‘transaction’ may comprehend a series of many occurrences, depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship ... a counterclaim which has its roots in a separate transaction or occurrence is permissive”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).