Is Assert-ing on tearDown (@After) method wrong?

I have multiple test cases even and if the logic is different, the output must be equal on all of them. So I was thinking in how to generalize them and place the Assert method only once.

Is there any way better to do it than this one:

static public class Tests() {

    private static String expected = null;
    private String actual = null;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {
        expected = new String("My Desired Output");
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        actual = new String();
    }

    @Test
    public void test1() throws Exception {
        actual = ...
    }

    @Test
    public void test2() throws Exception {
        actual = ...
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        assertThat(actual, is(equalTo(expected)));
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void tearDownAfterClass() {
    }
}

Running method:

@Test
public void runTests() {
    Result result = JUnitCore.runClasses(Tests.class);
    assertThat(result.getRunCount(), is(2));
    assertThat(result.getFailureCount(), is(0));
}