Chambers v. Ormiston’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738C
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) in related statutes. The dissenting judges would have recognized the Massachusetts marriage for the limited purpose of entertaining the divorce petition without determining whether Rhode Island law would recognize it as a valid marriage for other purposes. The dissenting judges suggested that resolution of the general issue whether same-sex marriage is strongly against the public policy of Rhode Island”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. (2010)“the meaning of questionable or doubtful words or phrases in a statute may be ascertained by reference to the meaning of other words or phrases associated with it”) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 1060 (6th ed.1990)); see also Jones v. United States, 527 U.S. 373, 389 , 119 S.Ct. 2090 , 144 L.Ed.2d 370 (1999) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“resides in the State House and not the courthouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. (2010)
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.