State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.3d 666 · 2001
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Pisciotta v. Old National Bancorp (2007), Allstate Insurance v. Menards, Inc. (2002)
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · City of Houston v. Hill · Wichita Royalty Co v. City Nat Bank of Wichita Falls · Lexington Insurance v. Rugg & Knopp, Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for certification shall be included in the moving party's brief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the case concerns a matter of vital public concern, where the issue will likely recur in other eases, where resolution of the question to be certified is outcome determinative Of the case, and Where the state supreme court has yet to have an opportunity to illuminate a clear path on the issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he most important consideration guiding the exercise of this discretion is whether the reviewing court finds itself genuinely uncertain about a question of state law that is vital to a correct disposition of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.