Kurczi v. Eli Lilly & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 1426 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Combs II Cta II v. International Insurance Company (2004), Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Poe (1998)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. · 26 Cal. 3d 588 - Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories · Day & Zimmermann, Inc. v. Challoner
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And where [the state's intermediate] appellate courts have spoken in the Supreme Court's absence, we will normally treat those decisions as authoritative absent a strong showing that the [state's Supreme Court] would decide the issue differently.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not commissioned to take a position regarding the advisability or fairness of the state rule to be applied, but [must] determine the issue as would the highest court of the state.”
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.