Commodities Export Company v. Detroit International Bridge

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a state court's opinion on an issue of federal law “is entitled to no deference whatsoever”
• “We have no power to offer an advisory opinion, based on hypothetical facts.”
• principles of comity and federalism require the federal courts to accord respect to state court proceedings and recognize that they should have the final say over the law they are best suited to apply
• “Under Article III, the federal courts may exercise jurisdiction only if the parties have presented a live case or controversy. U.S. CONST. art. III, § 2. We have no power to offer an advisory opinion, based on hypothetical facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).