Sutcliffe Storage & Warehouse Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.2d 849 · 1947
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Walton v. Eaton Corp. (1977), State of Washington v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior (1969)
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Haytian Republic · Baird v. United States · St Louis Ry Co v. United States · Deposit Bank of Owensboro v. City of Owensboro · Pakas v. . Hollingshead
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no reason why a court should be bothered or a litigant harassed with duplicating lawsuits on the same docket; it is enough if one complete adjudication of the controversy be had.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The court definitely assumed the existence of a separate claim for federal income taxes for each year involved. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The pendency of a prior pending action in the same federal court is ground for abatement of the second action.”
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.