Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 522 · 1931
Citation profile
386 federal appellate · 117 district · 367 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,207 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982), Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982)
386 federal appellate · 117 district · 367 state decisions — followed in 41 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
reviewedBaldwin v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Ass'n (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. v. Mitchell · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Goldey v. Morning News
Cited together with Durfee v. Duke · American Surety Co. v. Baldwin · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co.
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 1,207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Public policy dictates that there be an end of litigation; that those who have contested an issue shall be bound by the result of the contest, and that matters once tried shall be considered forever settled as between the parties.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the full faith and credit required by [Article IV, Section 1] is not involved, since neither of the courts was a state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“right to litigate the same question twice.”
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.