Earle v. Illinois Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing district court decision not to enjoin second-filed suit; Hdzeltine, 122 F.2d at 930-31
• “Anticipatory suits are disfavored because they are aspects of forum-shopping”
• denying defendant’s motion to stay or dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

71 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Alltrade, Inc. v. Uniweld Products, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-10-31· cited 323×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Pennsylvania. Appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1988-08-26· cited 273×
• Tempco Electric Heater Corporation v. Omega Engineering, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-05-14· cited 195×
• Rasmussen Drilling, Inc., a Colorado Corporation Licensed to Do Business in Wyoming v. Kerr-Mcgee Nuclear Corporation and Kerr-Mcgee Corporation
  Tenth Circuit· 1978-02-13· cited 133×
• Odell v. Hudspeth
  Tenth Circuit· 1951-06-12· cited 106×
• National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. A. L. Fowler, D. O. Thomas, and E. O. Thomas, Individually and Doing Business as Fowler Poultry & Egg Co.
  Second Circuit· 1961-02-08· cited 92×
• Cresta Blanca Wine Co. v. Eastern Wine Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1944-07-14· cited 67×
• Cookeville Gynecology & Obstetrics, P.C. v. Southeastern Data Systems, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-05-11· cited 60×
• Richard Lane v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-06-03· cited 57×
• Cavness v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1951-04-12· cited 51×
• Kerotest Mfg. Co. v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co.
  Third Circuit· 1951-05-24· cited 49×
• Thomas M. Roth v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1964-12-23· cited 48×
• Sweetheart Plastics, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1971-02-24· cited 48×
• Wells v. Universal Pictures Co.
  Second Circuit· 1948-03-16· cited 48×
• Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. v. Sylvania Industrial Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1946-03-26· cited 46×
• Steve Casias v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1963-02-28· cited 41×
• Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Sales Affiliates, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1952-06-05· cited 41×
• FMC Corp. v. AMVAC Chemical Corp.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2005-08-01· cited 34×
• Samuel H. Sheppard v. E. L. Maxwell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1965-07-14· cited 33×
• United States v. Redfield
  D. Nevada· 1961-03-23· cited 33×