Kovacs v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 289 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Ford v. Ford (1962), Nowak v. United States (1958)
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 212 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Finlay v. Finlay · Minnesota v. National Tea Co.
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 289 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Whatever effect, the Full Faith and Credit Clause may have with respect to custody decrees, it is clear, as the Court stated in Halvey, `that the State of the forum has at least as much leeway to disregard the judgment, to qualify it, or to depart from it as does the State where it was rendered. * * *'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is clear that the State of the forum has at least as much leeway to disregard the judgment, to qualify it, or to depart from it as does the State where it was rendered.”
2 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.