McWilliams v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2019
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Allen v. McCurry · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the difference between an inferior court and the United States Supreme Court effectively eliminates options in our decision-making function. We must honor the claim-preclusive effect of the state court's judgment, regardless of Section 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gregory v. Drury“Under the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 , a federal court must give to a state court the same preclusive effect that a court of the state in which the judgment was rendered would give it.”
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.