McAlpine v. Tourtelotte’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““The first thing that presents itself is that no such suit, whether well founded or ill founded, can be maintained against the parties to the action in ejectment pending yet in the state court. The act of Congress has decided that no injunction — and no relief could be had here without an injunction, and that is what is prayed — that no injunction could be issued to the state courts to a party to prevent his proceeding in a state court, except in such cases where that relief is authorized by the act concerning bankrupts. * * * But the old rule remains that except in that class of actions the federal courts will not interfere by injunction in the suits pending in the state courts.””

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