Erwin v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Cohen v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. (1983), Forsyth v. Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975)
2 federal appellate · 22 district · 9 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 67 Cal. 2d 551 - Reich v. Purcell · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Haumschild v. Continental Casualty Co. · 34 Ill. 2d 57 - Wartell v. Formusa · Casey v. Manson Construction & Engineering 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an Oregon court [would do] what comes naturally and appl[y] Oregon law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no choice of law issue if, in a particular factual context, the interests and policies of one state are involved and those of the other are not or are involved in only minor ways.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . if those of neither state are vitally involved, . . . the law of the forum should apply.”
1 later decision 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.