Kolovrat v. Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 34 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 415 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano (1982)
115 federal appellate · 34 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Factor v. Laubenheimer · Clark v. Allen · Abdul v. United States · Bacardi Corporation of America v. Domenech
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 415 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While courts interpret treaties for themselves, the meaning given them by the departments of government particularly charged with their negotiation and enforcement is given great weight.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[1] The right of an alien not residing within the United States or its territories to take either real or personal property or the proceeds thereof in this state by succession or testamentary disposition, upon the same terms and conditions as inhabitants and citizens of the United States, is dependent in each case: "[a] Upon the existence of a reciprocal right upon the part of citizens of the United States to take real and personal property and the proceeds thereof upon the same terms and conditions as inhabitants and citizens of the country of which such alien is an inhabitant or citizen; "[b] Upon the rights of citizens of the United States to receive by payment to them within the United States or its territories money originating from the estates of persons dying within such foreign country; and "[c] Upon proof that such foreign heirs, distributees, devisees or legatees may receive the benefit, use or control of money or property from estates of persons dying in this state without confiscation, in whole or in part, by the governments of such foreign countries. "[2] The burden is upon such nonresident alien to establish the fact of existence of the reciprocal rights set forth in subsection [1] of this section. "[3] If such reciprocal rights are not found to exist and if no heir, devisee or legatee other than such alien is found eligible to take such property, the property shall be disposed of as escheated property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"These treaties and agreements show that this Nation has adopted programs deemed desirable in bringing about, so far as can be done, stability and uniformity in the difficult field of world monetary controls and exchange. * * * Doubtless these agreements may fall short of that goal. But our National Government's powers have been exercised so far as deemed desirable and feasible toward that end, and the power to make policy with regard to such matters is a national one from the compulsion of both necessity and our Constitution."”
1 later decision 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.