6 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 31 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 Crosley Corporation v. Hazeltine Corporation.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crosley Corporation v. Hazeltine Corporation Anchor | green | “in all cases of concurrent jurisdiction, the court which first has possession of the subject must decide it.” | 9 |
| 2 | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Pennsylvania. Appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | green | “he court which first has possession of the subject must decide it.” | 5 |
| 3 | In Re: John Amendt | green | “here, the most important factor is the avoidance of duplicative litigation: adjudicating almost identical issues in separate fora would waste judicial resources.” | 5 |
| 4 | McFarland v. Yegen | green | “a breach of fiduciary duties . . . can occur only where the defendants commit or fail to commit the actions that their duties require.” | 4 |
| 5 | Tobias Chavez v. Dole Food Company Inc | green | “he first-filed rule is grounded on equitable principles and requires district court judges to fashion a flexible response to the issue of concurrent jurisdiction.” | 4 |
| 6 | Behalf v. Am. Airlines Grp., Inc. | green | “here there are hundreds of potential plaintiffs . . . the claim of any one plaintiff that a forum is appropriate merely because it is his home forum is considerably weakened.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.