rule of comity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 267 U.S. 80 - Morse v. United States · 1925Most cited · 170 citing opinions
The principle that when the jurisdiction of a court has attached, it must be respected as exclusive until exhausted, is a rule of comity, having a wide application in civil cases but a limited one in criminal cases.
How often courts cite the case defining “rule of comity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rule of comity” — 170 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.