Brown v. Fletcher's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
210 U.S. 82 · 1908
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1990 · most notably Chicago Ry Co v. Schendel Same (1926), Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H (1908)
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Huntington v. Attrill · Thompson v. Whitman · Reynolds v. Stockton · Simmons v. Saul
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 4, § 1 of the Constitution of the United States requires that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state, but this provision does not preclude inquiry into the jurisdiction of the court in which the judgment was rendered, or into the facts necessary to give such jurisdiction; nor are the courts of a state required to give full faith and credit to a judgment rendered by a court of another state which had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter or of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newell v. Newell
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.