Jacobs v. Tenney’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Richman Bros. · Studebaker Corporation v. Richard D. Gittlin
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any doubts as to the propriety of a federal injunction against state court proceedings should be resolved in favor of permitting the state courts to proceed in an orderly fashion to finally determine the controversy. The explicit wording of § 2283 itself implies as much, and the fundamental principle of a dual system of courts leads inevitably to that conclusion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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