Estin v. Estin’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 541 · 1948
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 20 district · 739 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,052 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson (1980), Calder v. Jones (1984)
127 federal appellate · 20 district · 739 state decisions — followed in 46 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 · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina
Cited together with Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco
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 1,052 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The result in this situation is to make the divorce divisible to give effect to the Nevada decree insofar as it affects marital status and to make it ineffective on the issue of alimony. It accommodates the interests of both Nevada and New York in this broken marriage by restricting each State to the matters of her dominant concern.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here are few areas of the law in black and white. The greys are dominant and even among them the shades are innumerable.”
10 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. And the congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bishins v. Bishins · Massey v. Ball
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.