jurisdictional finality
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 375 U.S. 106 - Durfee v. Duke · 1963Most cited · 1,419 citing opinions
a judgment is entitled to full faith and credit—even as to questions of jurisdiction—when the second court's inquiry discloses that those questions have been fully and fairly litigated and finally decided in the court which rendered the original judgment.
How often courts cite the case defining “jurisdictional finality”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “jurisdictional finality” — 1,413 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.