Durfee v. Duke’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
297 federal appellate · 65 district · 759 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,419 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein (1996), Underwriters National Assurance Company v. North Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (1982)
297 federal appellate · 65 district · 759 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJulia E. Duke v. Gene Durfee and Laura Durfee, Gene Durfee and Laura Durfee v. Julia E. Duke (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1251 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Land US v. Dollar · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Cited together with Underwriters National Assurance Company v. North Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association · Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · International Shoe Co. v. Washington
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 1,419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judgment is entitled to full faith and credit--even as to questions of jurisdiction--when the second court's inquiry discloses that those questions have been fully and fairly litigated and finally decided in the court which rendered the original judgment.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally requires every State to give to a judgment at least the res judicata effect which the judgment would be accorded in the State which rendered it.”
24 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.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.