Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
320 U.S. 430 · 1943
Citation profile
157 federal appellate · 18 district · 464 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 784 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982), American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn (1951)
157 federal appellate · 18 district · 464 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Huntington v. Attrill
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 784 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establish throughout the federal system the salutary principle of the common law that a litigation once pursued to judgment shall be as conclusive of the rights of the parties in every other court as in that where the judgment was rendered....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he full faith and credit clause like the commerce clause thus became a nationally unifying force. It altered the status of the several states as independent foreign sovereignties, each free to ignore rights and obligations created under the laws or established by the judicial proceedings of the others, by making each an integral part of a single nation, in which rights judicially established in any part are given nation-wide application. [Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U.S. 430, 439 , 64 S.Ct. 208, 214 , 88 L.Ed. 149, 155-56 (1943).]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are aware of no * * * exception [to the command of full faith and credit] in the case of a money judgment rendered in a civil suit.”
7 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.