Kirkpatrick v. Merit Behavioral Care Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. World University Inc., Santa Barbara Center Corporation · Travelers Insurance v. 633 Third Associates · Sequa Corp. v. GBJ Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“illegal and void as being against public policy unless it [can] be said that [it] is injurious to the interests of the public or contravenes some established interest of society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Gorman
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.