Riley v. New York Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 343 · 1942
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hanson v. Denckla (1958), Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (1985)
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 143 state decisions — followed in 31 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 · Hansberry v. Lee · Bowen v. Johnston · Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co. · Fauntleroy v. Lum
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the local doctrines of res judicata, speaking generally, become a part of national jurisprudence * * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken.””
4 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.