Johnson v. Muelberger’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 581 · 1951
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 21 district · 400 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 521 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Sosna v. Iowa (1975), Martin v. Wilks (1989)
53 federal appellate · 21 district · 400 state decisions — followed in 34 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Estin v. Estin · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. · Sherrer v. Sherrer
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 521 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a divorce cannot be attacked for lack of jurisdiction by parties actually before the court or strangers in the rendering state, it cannot be attacked by them anywhere in the Union. The Full Faith and Credit Clause forbids.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[W]e 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... decree on jurisdictional grounds in the courts of a sister State where there has been participation by the defendant in the ... 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.' (Emphasis added). [ 71 S.Ct. at 477 ].”
7 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.” Art. IV, § 1, U.S. Constitution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Buck · Matter of Fray
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.