Wells v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.2d 402 · 1939
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1981
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Princess Lida of Thurn & Taxis v. Thompson · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same · Byers v. McAuley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where two actions involving the same cause of action are pending in a state and a federal court and are within the concurrent jurisdiction of each, both actions, insofar as they seek relief in personam, may proceed at the same time and when one action has gone to judgment, that judgment may be set up in the other action as res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.