Coe v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 378 · 1948
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 12 district · 361 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Sosna v. Iowa (1975), Estin v. Estin (1948)
45 federal appellate · 12 district · 361 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Coe v. Coe · Latterner v. Latterner · Confer v. District Court · Rosa v. Rosa · Calvert v. Calvert
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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Porter · Taylor v. Taylor“is now and has been for more than six weeks preceding the filing of the complaint herein a bona fide resident of and domiciled in the State of Nevada and has been physically and corporally present in said State each and every day for said period of time, and all of said time plaintiff has had and still has the intent to make said State her home residence and domicile for an indefinite period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Kelley
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.