Pickens v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

108 federal appellate · 66 district · 64 state decisions

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 289 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “•‘The course to be pursued bus been well defined in cases in which there is a conflict as to jurisdiction between the state and the federal courls. Briefly stated, the rule is this: Considering the peculiar character of our government, and keeping in view the forbearance which courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction exorcise towards each other, it follows that the court which first obtains rightful jurisdiction over the subject-matter of a controversy must by all other courts be permitted to proceed therein to final judgment. The federal courts will not interfere with the administration of affairs lawfully in the custody and jurisdiction of a state court, nor will they permii the courts of the states to interfere concerning litigation rightfully submitted to the decision of the courts of the United States.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Westfeldt v. North Carolina Mining Co.

2. ““The bankruptcy act of 1898 does not in the least modify this rule, but with unusual carefulness guards it in all of its details, provided the suit pending in the state court was instituted more than four months before the District Court of the United States had adjudicated the bankruptcy of the party entitled to or interested in the subject-matter of such controversy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Knight