14 F. Supp. 2d 978 - Streber v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Behrens v. Pelletier
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.
“(1) the needs of the interstate and international systems; (2) the relevant policies of the forum; (3) the relevant policies of other interested states and the relative interests of those states; (4) the protection of justified expectations; (5) the basic policies underlying the particular field of law; (6) certainty, predictability and uniformity of result; (7) ease in the determination and application of the law to be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Streber v. Hunter“directly contradicts Texas precedent protecting the rights of Texas clientsand arguably violated the Open Courts provisions [of the Texas and Louisiana constitutions] by divesting an individual of a cause of action before he or she had reason to know it existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy Parker Streber“[t]he relationship cannot be said to be 'centered' either exclusively in Louisiana and Texas, since numerous contacts occurred in both states and both states have significant connections to the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy Parker Streber
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.