Wheeler v. Winters’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · Reamer v. Beall · Jones v. Jones · T.H. v. A.S. · Kilgore v. Kilgore
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a showing to the contrary, a judgment of a court of a sister state is entitled to a strong presumption that the court had jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter and that it followed its laws and entered a valid judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Dean“The party challenging the validity of a judgment has the burden of overcoming this presumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Dean
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.