Syver v. Hahn’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably 49 Wis. 2d 26 - Shetney v. Shetney (1970), First Wisconsin National Bank v. Federal Land Bank (1988)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Cawker v. Dreutzer · Kusick v. Kusick · State Ex Rel. White v. District Court of Milwaukee County · Kienbaum v. Haberny
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where two actions between the same parties, on the same subject, and to test the same rights, are brought in 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.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“are foreclosed and restricted to the right to redeem before sale; and if he is to realize anything on his second mortgage, it will depend upon the existence of a surplus after sale under the county court judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'defendants ... be forever barred and foreclosed of all right, title, interest and equity of redemption in said mortgaged premises, except the right to redeem the same before sale as provided by law.1”
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.