Wood’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Sutowski v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1998), McCurdy Group, LLC v. American Biomedical Group, Inc. (2001)
12 district · 2 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Murphy v. Sullivan · 26 Cal. 3d 588 - Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories · 33 Cal. 2d 80 - Summers v. Tice · Perpich v. Department of Defense
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal court sitting in diversity must apply the law of the forum state, in this case Oklahoma, and thus must ascertain and apply Oklahoma law with the objective that the result obtained in the federal court should be the result that would be reached in an Oklahoma court.”
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.