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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 23 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Highway J Citizens Group v. United States Department Of Transportation.

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1 Highway J Citizens Group v. United States Department Of Transportation Anchor
ca7 · 2006
green “a final judgment on the merits of an action precludes the parties or their privies from relitigating issues that were or could have been raised in that action.” 10
2 Ralphael Okoro v. Randall Bohman
ca7 · 1999
green “a subsequent suit is barred if the claim on which it is based arises from the same incident, events, transaction, circumstances, or other factual nebula as a prior suit that had gone to final judgment.” 5
3 Ralphael Okoro v. Randall Bohman
ca7 · 1999
green “same incident, events, transaction, circumstances, or other factual nebula as a prior suit that had gone to final judgment.” 4
4 Highway J Citizens Group v. United States Department Of Transportation
ca7 · 2006
green “identity with a previously litigated matter if it emerges from the same core of operative facts as that earlier action.” 4

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