Griffith v. Griffith

How courts have described this case

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

• “application of comity vests in the sound discretion of the tribunal of the forum”
• “[T]he doctrine of dominant jurisdiction . . . applies when multiple proceedings are filed in different Texas counties. . . . This doctrine of dominant jurisdiction, however, does not apply to suits pending in other states.” (citations omitted)
• finding Florida property was community property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Guimaraes v. Brann
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-07-24· cited 55×
• Fuentes v. Zaragoza
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-31· cited 43×
• Gonzalo Artemio Lopez v. Lydia Serna and Galan G., Correctional Officers and Individually
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-09-25· cited 39×
• Ashton Grove L.C. v. Jackson Walker L.L.P.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2012-04-18· cited 21×
• In re Green
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-24· cited 21×
• Benz Group, Lynx Petroleum, Ltd., Robert Samuel Braswell, IV., Fortune Jaubert Alexander, Tom Schmidt and Benz Liquidation, LLC v. Flavio MacH Barreto
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-05-09· cited 14×
• In Re Green
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-08-24· cited 10×
• Renato Acain v. International Plant Services, LLC, Noureddine Ayed, Karim Ayed, Richard Dale Johnston, Adrienne Wilson, and Leysander Bustamonte
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-07· cited 7×
• In Re Vinyl Technologies, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-08-31· cited 4×
• Emmanuel C. Okonkwo v. Chinelo Joan Okonkwo
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2012-02-15· cited 2×
• Kainz v. Jacam Chemical Co. 2013
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2023-03-03· cited 1×
• Stanley A. Tener v. Short Carter Morris LLP and Adam J. Morris
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-28
• in Re Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2012-12-20
• Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Transit Mix Concrete & Materials Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2013-06-28
• Monica H. Wainwright v. James Richard Williams
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-12-23
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-05-07
• Lisa Monique Okoh-Brown v. Mark Allen Brown
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-01-28
• in the Interest of I.R.H., and Z.T.H., Minor Children
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-05-01
• Gerardo Perez Nieto v. Veronica Flores De Perez Nieto
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-05-01
• Abruzzo, LLC v. Apache Real Estate Partners, LLC, James Walesa, MSL Investments, LLC, Sarah Teel, MSL Real Estate Services and Joan Duncan
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-03-27

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• International Shoe Co. v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1945-12-03· cited 18,588×
• Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 12,253×
• BMC Software Belgium, NV v. Marchand
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 3,003×
• Michiana Easy Livin' Country, Inc. v. Holten
  Texas Supreme Court· 2005-05-27· cited 1,002×
• Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance, Ltd. v. English China Clays, P.L.C.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 994×
• Moki Mac River Expeditions v. Drugg
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-03-02· cited 848×
• American Type Culture Collection, Inc. v. Coleman
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-07-03· cited 765×
• Perry v. Del Rio
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-09-12· cited 417×
• Wyatt v. Shaw Plumbing Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 344×
• In Re Pirelli Tire, L.L.C.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-11-02· cited 178×
• Preussag Aktiengesellschaft v. Coleman
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-05-05· cited 118×
• In the Interest of S.A.V.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-10-21· cited 107×
• Stallworth v. Stallworth
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2006-08-29· cited 98×
• Thu Thuy Huynh v. Thuy Duong Nguyen
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-03· cited 97×
• Glattly v. CMS Viron Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-05-05· cited 74×
• Oryx Capital International, Inc. v. Sage Apartments, L.L.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2005-05-18· cited 49×
• Project Engineering USA Corp. v. Gator Hawk, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-07-09· cited 48×
• Dankowski v. Dankowski
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-13· cited 48×
• Nowell v. Nowell
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1966-10-28· cited 47×
• In Re ENSCO Offshore International Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-05-07· cited 46×