Babcock v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
285 federal appellate · 80 district · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,661 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Allstate Insurance v. Hague (1981), 67 Cal. 2d 551 - Reich v. Purcell (1967)
285 federal appellate · 80 district · 241 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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 Richards v. United States · Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission · Auten v. Auten · Slater v. Mexican National Railroad
Cited together with Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Neumeier v. Kuehner · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Tooker v. Lopez
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 1,661 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law of the jurisdiction which, because of its relationship or contact with the occurrence or parties has the greatest concern with the specific issue raised in the litigation.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage““In conclusion, then, there is no reason why all issues arising out of a tort claim must be resolved by reference to the law of the same jurisdiction. Where the issue involves standards of conduct, it is more than likely that it is the law of the place of the tort which will be controlling but the disposition of other issues must turn, as does the issue of the standard of conduct itself, on the law of the jurisdiction which has the strongest interest in the resolution of the particular issue presented.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he vested rights doctrine has long since been discredited because it fails to take account of underlying policy considerations in evaluating the significance to be ascribed to the circumstance that an act had a foreign situs in determining the rights and liabilities which arise out of that act."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.