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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 7 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 Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Blackwell's Adm'r.

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1 Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Blackwell's Adm'r Anchor
kyctapphigh · 1956
green “an iron rule, universally recognized, that an opinion or decision of an appellate court in the same cause is the law of the case for a subsequent trial or appeal however erroneous the opinion or decision may have been.” 4
2 Wright v. Carroll
ky · 2014
green “the drain on judicial resources that would result if previous decisions were routinely subject to reconsideration.” 3

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