Williams’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably End of the Road Trust Ex Rel. Fruehauf Trailer Corp. v. Terex Corp. (In Re Fruehauf Trailer Corp.) (2000), Lyon v. Caterpillar, Inc. (2000)
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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 Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 · United States v. Pungitore · United States v. Forsythe · Three Rivers Motors Co. v. Ford Motor Co. · United States v. Frumento
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Under general conflict of laws principles, where the laws of the two jurisdictions would produce the same result on the particular issue presented, there is a 'false conflict’ and the Court should avoid the choice-of-law question.’ ” Slater, 187 F.R.D. at 193 (quoting Williams v. Stone, 109 F.3d 890, 893 (3d Cir.1997)); see also Rohm & Haas Co., 689 F.2d at 429 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state law offenses the [plaintiffs'] claim were committed by [the defendant] serve no more than a 'definitional purpose' vis-à-vis an allegation of a RICO violation-they merely define the types of activity that may constitute predicate acts pursuant to the federal RICO statute”
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.