Rousselle v. Jewett

How courts have described this case

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

• “The relevant test is not whether there has been a prior lawsuit, but whether the same cause of action, or one so closely related that its proof depends on the same facts, has once been litigated.”
• “Rights, claims, or demands— even though they grow out of the same subject matter' — which constitute separate or distinct causes of action not appearing in the former litigation, are not barred in the later action because of res judicata.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).