23 Ala. App. 96 - Morris v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2012
15 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 Savage v. Wallace · Swope v. Swope · 215 Mo. App. 621 - Case v. Smith · Southern Hardware & Supply Co. v. Lester · Eastburn v. Canizas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that, where a controversy reaches different courts having concurrent jurisdiction, the court which first acquires jurisdiction, its power being adequate to the administration of complete justice, retains its jurisdiction and may dispose of the whole controversy, and no court of coordinate power is at liberty to interfere with its action [authorities cited]. This rule rests upon comity, and the necessity of avoiding conflicts in the execution of judgments by independent courts, and is a necessary one, because any other rule would unavoidably lead to collision and be productive of most calamitous results.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boswell v. Emmet
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.