V.L. v. E.L.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Milliken v. Meyer · Baker Thomas v. General Motors Corporation · Underwriters National Assurance Company v. North Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association · Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co. · Fauntleroy v. Lum
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] State may not disregard the judgment of a sister State because it disagrees with the reasoning underlying the judgment or deems it to be wrong on the merits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the judgment on its face appears to be a record of a court of general jurisdiction, such jurisdiction over the cause and the parties is to be presumed unless disproved by extrinsic evidence, or by the record itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alter[s] the status of the several states as independent foreign sovereignties, each free to ignore obligations created under the laws or by the judicial proceedings of the others, and ... make[s] them integral parts of a single nation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.