176 Ind. App. 22 - Abney v. Abney’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2004
18 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 Babich v. United States · Estin v. Estin · 14 Ill. 2d 356 - James v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad · 166 Ind. App. 620 - Flora v. Flora · 56 Ill. 2d 508 - Keck v. Keck
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The importance of priority of jurisdiction is based on the policy that after suits are commenced in one state, it is inconsistent with inter-state harmony if their prosecution be controlled by the courts of another state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“represents a willingness to grant a privilege, not as a matter of right, but out of deference and good will. Its primary value is to promote uniformity of decision by discouraging repeated litigation of the same issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burke v. Burke“[w]here a sister-state enjoins a litigant from proceeding with a previously instituted action, the court in the forum state will usually refuse to recognize the injunction as a bar to disposition of the pending action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.