American Surety Co. v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
287 U.S. 156 · 1932
Citation profile
326 federal appellate · 59 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 869 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1938), Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982)
326 federal appellate · 59 district · 159 state decisions — followed in 35 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 Phillips v. Commissioner · Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n · Phillips v. Commissioner · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz
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 869 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principles of res judicata apply to questions of jurisdiction as well as to other issues.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process requires that there be an opportunity to present every available defense; but it need not be before the entry of judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]aving invoked the state procedure which afforded the opportunity of raising the issue . . . [he] can not utilize the same issue as a basis for relief in the federal court. Federal claims are not to be prosecuted piecemeal in state and federal courts, whether the attempt to do so springs from a failure seasonably to adduce relevant facts or from failure seasonably to pursue the appropriate state remedy.”
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.