Metales v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that one of the CT Page 1241 purposes of the doctrine of res judicata is to \provide repose by preventing a person from being harassed by vexatious litigation\
• deviating from general rules of claim preclusion and finding that in the unique circumstances of an automobile accident, a subsequent action for personal injuries was not barred after an initial small claims adjudication solely for property damages
• \The conservation of judicial resources is of paramount importance as our trial dockets are deluged with new cases daily.\
• admission of truth of allegation in pleading is judicial admission conclusive on pleader
• Claim preclusion “bars not only subsequent reliti-gation of a claim previously asserted, but subsequent relitigation of any claims relating to the same cause of action which were actually made or which might have been made.”
• questioning whether issue preclusion applies when review unavailable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).