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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 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 Dunaway v. WH Hopper & Associates, Inc..

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1 Dunaway v. WH Hopper & Associates, Inc. Anchor
miss · 1982
green “collateral estoppel, unlike the broader question of res judicata, applies only to questions actually litigated in a prior suit, and not to questions which might have been litigated.” 3
2 Lyle Cashion Company v. McKendrick
miss · 1956
green “an appellant is precluded from relitigating in the present suit specific questions actually litigated and determined by and essential to the judgment in the prior suit, even though a different cause of action is the subject of the present suit.” 3

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