Cecil Tutt v. Lewis Doby

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a finding of the precise amount of rent past due was not entitled to collateral estoppel effect because the prior proceeding centered on the issue of eviction and the issue of the amount of rent was not actually before the court and was not “necessarily” decided
• applying res judicata where first judgment was a default judgment for rent and second suit involved housing regulations issues
• applying res judicata where first judgment was a default judgment for rent and second suit involved housing regulations issues
• no collateral estoppel effect given to default judgment obtained by landlord for possession without personal service in second suit for amount of rent due
• in an action for possession, “amount of back rent due was not genuinely before the court,” and cannot be said to have been decided for estoppel purposes
• default judgment in action for possession does not bar tenant from litigating amount of rent due in a subsequent action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• I.A.M. National Pension Fund, Benefit Plan a v. Industrial Gear Manufacturing Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-12-13· cited 257×
• Jeffrey Otherson v. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-06-21· cited 175×
• James W. McCord Jr. v. F. Lee Bailey
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-10-15· cited 168×
• Mendes v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-06-13· cited 93×
• Goldkind v. Snider Bros., Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1983-09-23· cited 71×
• Green Miller, Jr. v. Lester Poretsky
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-12-28· cited 66×
• Ali Baba Co., Inc. v. Wilco, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-10-10· cited 54×
• Charles Nasem v. Honorable Harold Brown, Secretary of the Department of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-04-10· cited 48×
• Habib v. Thurston
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-10-30· cited 37×
• Osei-Kuffnor v. Argana
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-01-08· cited 31×
• Winchester Management Corp. v. Staten
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-07-14· cited 29×
• Shin v. Portals Confederation Corp.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1999-04-22· cited 27×
• Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-06-06· cited 25×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Wright (In Re Wright)
  D. Connecticut· 1995-10-25· cited 20×
• Shewmaker v. Minchew
  District of Columbia· 1980-10-10· cited 17×
• Norris v. Green
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-03-27· cited 16×
• Henderson v. Snider Bros., Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-12-19· cited 14×
• Westmoreland v. Weaver Brothers, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1972-10-02· cited 14×
• Bigelow v. Knight
  District of Columbia· 1990-05-04· cited 13×
• Turner v. Department of Army
  District of Columbia· 1978-02-22· cited 13×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cromwell v. County of Sac
  Supreme Court· 1877-04-16· cited 2,216×
• Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
  Supreme Court· 1963-02-18· cited 2,208×
• Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1955-06-06· cited 1,049×
• Lindsey v. Normet
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-23· cited 901×
• Angel v. Bullington
  Supreme Court· 1947-02-17· cited 644×
• United States v. International Building Co.
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 347×
• The Evergreens v. Nunan
  Second Circuit· 1944-04-03· cited 199×
• Brown v. Southall Realty Company
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1968-03-27· cited 76×
• William T. Bell and Margie Bell v. Tsintolas Realty Company, James Coates v. Ruppert Real Estate, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-06-18· cited 71×
• Trans-Lux Radio City Corp. v. Service Parking Corp.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1947-07-09· cited 66×
• Tillman v. National City Bank of New York
  Second Circuit· 1941-04-04· cited 49×
• David v. Nemerofsky
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1945-03-30· cited 22×
• Mahoney v. Campbell
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1965-04-29· cited 13×
• Paregol v. Smith
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1954-03-26· cited 12×
• Evergreens v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1944-10-09· cited 12×
• McCotter v. Flinn
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1899-12-15· cited 11×
• Bess v. David
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1958-04-15· cited 9×
• Norman Fields v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-02-02· cited 7×