King v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Marmon v. Mustang Aviation, Inc. (1968), Vallone v. Vallone (1982)
8 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Arnold v. Leonard · Union Trust Co. v. Grosman · Dority v. Dority · Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Thompson · Richardson v. Hutchins
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That rule has, however, its exceptions. It will not be observed and applied when to enforce a foreign contract, according to the provisions of the foreign laws, will contravene some established rule of public policy of the state of the forum. Union Trust Co. v. Grosman, 245 U.S. 412 , 38 S.Ct. 147 , 62 L.Ed. 368 ; 1 Wharton on Conflict of Laws (3d Ed.), 275.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the electorate of the state desire a change of [article 16, section 15], it can be made through the legislative and constitutional channels provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beck v. Beck““Statutes empowering the husband to manage * * * community assets make the husband essentially a trustee”.”
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.