Southern Railway Co. v. Clift

How courts have described this case

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

• “In other words, in one it is a question of power, in the other of submission.”
• “The prior ruling may have been followed as the law of the case but there is a difference between such adherence and res judicata; one directs discretion, the other supersedes it and compels judgment.”
• “[T]here is a difference between [law of the case] and res adjudieata.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).