Latham v. Chafee’s Empirical Analysis
7 F. 520 · 1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1901
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · Gordon v. Gilfoil · Insurance Company v. Brune's Assignee · Hatch v. Spofford · Blanchard v. Stone
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The main question upon this defendant’s plea is whether the pendency of a suit in a state court between the same parties, and involving the same subject-matter, can be pleaded in abatement or in bar to a suit in the circuit court of the United States. It is undoubtedly true, as a general rule, that, as between two courts of concurrent jurisdiction, that which first gets control of the litigation will be allowed to prosecute it to an end. * * * But this rule does not extend to courts of foreign jurisdiction. It has often been held that the courts of a state are foreign, in this sense, to the courts of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. Lyman
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.