Chicago Title Land Trust Co. v. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Sales Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that res judicata bars “not only every matter that was actually determined in the first suit, but also every matter that might have been raised and determined in that suit”
• refusing to reach the “knotty question of Illinois law” as to whether a determination of lack of standing is a decision on the merits for the purposes of res judicata
• plaintiffs “split their cause of action—and they can’t make an argument for ‘fundamental unfairness’ without ignoring that basic fact”
• “Dismissal with prejudice for failure to state a claim is . . . tantamount to an adjudication on the merits”
• “It is the identity of interest that controls in determining privity, not the nominal identity of the parties.”
• “It is the identity of interest that controls in determining privity, not the nominal identity of the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).