McCarthy v. Olin Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 148 · 1997
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably In Re: Sharp International Corp (2005), Curley v. AMR Corp. (1998)
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because it is our job to predict how the forum state's highest court would decide the issues before us, we will not certify questions of law where sufficient precedents exist for us to make this determination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the law of the state is uncertain or ambiguous, we will carefully predict how the highest court of the state would resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the highest court of a state an unsettled and significant question of state law that will control the outcome of a case pending before this Court.”
3 later decisions 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.