Atchley v. Atchley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “However, while it is established that a court in one State, when asked to give effect to the judgment of a court in another State, may constitutionally inquire into the foreign court’s jurisdiction to render that judgment, the modern decisions of this Court have carefully delineated the permissible scope of such an inquiry. From these decisions there emerges a general rule that 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.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. Poole

2. “(In rem or Quasi in rem ) cases are governed by a different rule because when one court takes into its possession “a specific thing, that Res is as much withdrawn from the judicial power of the other, as if it had been carried physically into a different territorial sovereignty. Kline v. Burke Construction Company, 260 U.S. 226 , 43 S.Ct. 79, 81 , 67 L.Ed. 226 , 24 A.L.R. 1077, 1081 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Newport v. Masengill Auction Co.

3. “... the pendency of an action for a divorce or separation in one state will not require the abatement of an action for a divorce subsequently brought in another state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vermillion v. Vermillion