Johnson v. Hondo, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

125 F.3d 408 · 1997

Citation profile

cited by 86 later decisions

states following

November 2018

most recently cited

31 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hardin v. Sc Johnson & Son Inc (1999), Beanstalk Group, Inc. v. AM General Corp. (2002)

31 federal appellate · 8 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 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Baskerville v. Culligan International Co.

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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“simply expressions of animosity or juvenile provocation,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 122 F. Supp. 2d 986 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. TruGreen Ltd. Partnership · 852 F. Supp. 2d 352 - Farren v. Shaw Environmental, Inc.
“[I]t is rudimentary that pleading requirements in the federal courts 'are governed by the federal rules and not by the practice of the courts in the state in which the federal court happens to be sitting.' " (citation omitted) ). Notwithstanding the general rule, this District has long applied state pleading standards to claims for punitive damages under Minnesota law. See, e.g., In re Levaquin Prods. Liab. Litig. , No. 08-CV-5743 (JRT), 2010 WL 4867588 , at -3 (D. Minn. Nov. 23, 2010) (noting that this District has applied Minn. Stat. § 549.191 to claims for punitive damages); see also In re Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming Devices Prods. Liab. Litig. , No. 15-CV-2666 (JNE/FLN), 2017 WL 5187832 , at n.1 (D. Minn. July 27, 2017) ("The Judges and Magistrate Judges of this Court have consistently applied the Minnesota punitive damage statute in diversity cases where state law supplies the rule of decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 353 F. Supp. 3d 847 - Selective Ins. Co. of S.C. v. Sela · 755 F. Supp. 2d 942 - Walden v. City of Chicago
“[i]t appears plain on the record as a whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boh Bros. Construction Co. · Shepherd v. Slater Steels Corp.

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.