Herrmann Holdings Ltd. v. Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 552 · 2002
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Great Plains Trust Company v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co (2002), Dorsey v. Portfolio Equities, Inc. (2008)
46 federal appellate · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. · Lovelace v. Software Spectrum Inc · United States Thompson v. Columbia/hca Healthcare Corporation
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e defer to intermediate state appellate court decisions, unless convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n deciding this case, we are required to make an Erie guess as to what the Texas Supreme Court would most likely decide.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Needless to say, we do not generally consider points raised for the first time at oral argument.”
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.