Sherrer v. Sherrer’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 343 · 1948
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 36 district · 702 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 982 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982), Sosna v. Iowa (1975)
120 federal appellate · 36 district · 702 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Williams v. State of North Carolina
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 982 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that the decision of this Court in the Davis case and those in related situations are clearly indicative of the result to be reached here. Those cases stand for the proposition that the requirements of full faith and credit bar a defendant from collaterally attacking a divorce decree on jurisdictional grounds in the courts of a sister State where there has been participation by the defendant in the divorce proceedings, where the defendant has been accorded full opportunity to contest the jurisdictional issues, and where the decree is not susceptible to such collateral attack in the courts of the State which rendered the decree.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From judicial experience with and interpretation of the clause, there has emerged the succinct conclusion that the Framers intended it to help weld the independent states into a nation by giving judgments within the jurisdiction of the rendering state the same faith and credit in sister states as they have in the state of the original forum. The faith and credit given is not to be niggardly but generous, full. `(L)ocal policy must at times be required to give way, such”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.””
6 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.