pendency in state court
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 205 U.S. 322 - Hunt v. New York Cotton Exchange · 1907Most cited · 363 citing opinions
The pendency of a suit in a state court does not deprive a Federal court of jurisdiction.
How often courts cite the case defining “pendency in state court”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pendency in state court” — 360 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.