[118] 324 U.S. 154, 159-160 (1945).
[119] Bradford Electric Co. v. Clapper, 286 U.S. 145, 158 (1932).
[120] The Court had earlier remarked that "workmen's compensation legislation rests upon the idea of status, not upon that of implied contract." Cudahy Packing Co. v. Parramore, 263 U.S. 418, 423 (1923). In contrast to the above cases, see Kryger v. Wilson, 242 U.S. 171 (1916), where it was held that the question whether the cancellation of a land contract was governed by the lex rei sitae or the lex loci contractus was purely a question of local common law; also Bond v. Hume, 243 U.S. 15 (1917).
[121] Pacific Ins. Co. v. Comm'n., 306 U.S. 493, 497, 503-504 (1939).
[122] 320 U.S. 430 (1943).
[123] Industrial Comm'n. v. McCartin, 330 U.S. 622 (1947).
[124] Cardillo v. Liberty Mutual Co., 330 U.S. 469 (1947).
[125] Reviewing some of the cases treated in this section, a writer in 1925 said: "It appears, then, that the Supreme Court has quite definitely committed itself to a program of making itself, to some extent, a tribunal for bringing about uniformity in the field of conflicts * * * although the precise circumstances under which it will regard itself as having jurisdiction for this purpose are far from clear." E.M. Dodd, The Power of the Supreme Court to Review State Decisions in the Field of Conflict of Laws (1926), 39 Harv. L. Rev. 533-562. It can hardly be said that the law has been subsequently clarified on this point.
[126] Walter W. Cook, The Power of Congress Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause (1919), 28 Yale L.J. 430.
[127] Cooper v. Newell, 173 U.S. 555, 567 (1899). See also Wisconsin v. Pelican Ins. Co., 127 U.S. 265, 291 (1888); Swift v. McPherson, 232 U.S. 51 (1914); Pennington v. Gibson, 16 How. 65, 81 (1854); Cheever v. Wilson, 9 Wall. 108, 123 (1870); Baldwin v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Asso., 283 U.S. 522 (1931); American Surety Co. v. Baldwin, 287 U.S. 156 (1932); Sanders v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 292 U.S. 190 (1934).