Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co.’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 268 · 1935
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 43 district · 333 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 701 later decisions (86 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. (1941), Williams v. State of North Carolina (1945)
110 federal appellate · 43 district · 333 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Huntington v. Attrill · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Maynard v. Hill · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 701 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very purpose of the full faith and credit clause was to alter the status of the several states as independent foreign sovereignties, each free to ignore obligations created under the laws or by the judicial proceedings of the others, and to make them integral parts of a single nation throughout which a remedy upon a just obligation might be demanded as of right, irrespective of the state of its origin.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [i]n a suit upon a money judgment for a civil cause of action, the validity of the claim upon which it was founded is not open to inquiry, whatever its genesis. Regardless of the nature of the right which gave rise to it, the judgment is an obligation to pay money in the nature of a debt upon a specialty. Recovery upon it can be resisted only on the grounds ... that it has ceased to be obligatory because of payment or other discharge. ...”
14 later decisions 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.