Curry v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.2d 172 · 1935
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 1981 · most notably Estate of Davis (1940), Goodloe v. Hawk (1940)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
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 Re Metropolitan Railway Receivership · Pacific Railroad v. Ketchum · Nashville St Ry Co v. United States · Harding v. Harding · United States v. Babbitt
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“` A fortiori, neither party can deny its effect as a bar of a subsequent suit on any claim included in the decree.' Nashville, etc., Railway Company v. United States, 113 U.S. 261 , 266, 5 S.Ct. 460, 462, 28 L.Ed. 971.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * it can never lie with a litigant either by passive consent, or by af-ñrmaüve action, to lead a court to find a fact Justified and lit to be carried into Judgment, and then to contend in another court that the same iacic at the same time and within his own knowledge, was otherwise and competent to support a contrary Judgment.””
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.