Walker v. McNutt’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2019
20 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
Relies on Wear v. Wear · Proctor v. Dicklow · Johnson v. Best · Shoemaker v. Brown · Wilcox v. Fisher
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The priority principle does not come into operation where the plaintiff cannot obtain from the first court all the relief asked for and to which he is entitled. This means that though the party who invokes the jurisdiction of one of the courts having concurrent jurisdiction is generally bound by his election and cannot thereafter bring an action in another tribunal, this is not so where the later suit involves questions that cannot be considered in the earlier one. In fact, it has been said that where an action is brought in a court that does not have the jurisdiction to afford complete relief, the court having such jurisdiction may restrain the parties from proceeding further in the court not having such plenary jurisdiction. Moreover, it has been said that to bring the priority principle into operation in the suit later instituted, the defendant as well as the plaintiff must have a complete opportunity for the adjudication of his rights in the suit first instituted. "In this connection it has been pointed out that the priority principle must yield to the more vital and fundamental principle of justice which requires that every litigant shall have his day before a court competent to afford adequate and complete relief."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It is a familiar principle that when a court of competent jurisdiction acquires jurisdiction of the subject matter of a case, its authority continues, subject only to the appellate authority.'”
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.