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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 12 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Lanza.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 United States v. Lanza Anchor
scotus · 1922
green “n act de- nounced as a crime by both national and state sovereign- ties is an offense against the peace and dignity of both and may be punished by each” 4
2 MacArthur v. San Juan County
ca10 · 2007
green “comity is not an inexorable command . . . and a request for recognition of a foreign judgment may be rebuffed on any number of grounds” 4
3 Guinness Plc Guinness America, Incorporated v. Thomas Joseph Ward, (Two Cases)
ca4 · 1992
green “the effect to be given foreign judgments has therefore histori- cally been determined by more flexible principles of comity” 4

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