Riehle v. Margolies’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 218 · 1929
Citation profile
270 federal appellate · 30 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 665 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Coit Independence Joint Venture v. Federal Savings & Loan Insurance (1989), Underwriters National Assurance Company v. North Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (1982)
270 federal appellate · 30 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Byers v. McAuley
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 665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A judgment of a court having jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject matter operates as res judicata, in the absence of fraud or collusion, even if obtained upon a default.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A majority of the court, as it is now constituted, think that our first decision impairs the jurisdiction of the District Court over assets already in its custody when the judgment of the state court was en tered. They believe that the liquidation of claims is a part of the distribution of the estate, since it determines how' much each creditor shall get, and that the distribution of the estate is part of what is usually understood as jurisdiction over the res. However, the former decision was reached after unusual deliberation and full presentation of all the questions involved. If it is to be changed, only the Supreme Court may do so; in the same case and on the same claim the first ruling must stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * where a statutory proceeding for the winding up of an insolvent corporation is brought in the state of the incorporation, * * * the assets will be distributed only among those persons who have been found to be creditors either by that court or elsewhere with its leave, and that a judgment recovered in another state without leave from it will not entitle the plaintiff to share in the assets. * * *””
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.