Reicher Dpm’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
44 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Levin v. Dalva Brothers Inc (2006), 417 F. Supp. 2d 137 - Diomed, Inc. v. Vascular Solutions, Inc. (2006)
44 district · 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 · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Bushkin Associates, Inc. v. Raytheon Co. · Commonwealth v. Mahdi · Van Dyke v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Massachusetts state courts apply 'a functional choice of law approach that responds to the interests of the parties, the States involved, and the interstate system as a whole.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he first step in a choice of law analysis is to determine whether an actual conflict exists between the substantive laws of the interested jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question of which state's law applies is resolved using the choice of law analysis of the forum state-in this case, Massachusetts.”
1 later decision 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.