Getty Petroleum Marketing, Inc. v. Capital Terminal Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Generally, in the federal system, '[t]he law of any state of the Union, whether depending upon statutes or upon judicial opinions, is a matter of which the courts of the United States are bound to take judicial notice without plea or proof.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Berríos-romero v. Estado Libre Asociado De Puerto Rico · In re Fin. Oversight & Mgmt. Bd. for Puerto Rico

2. “the commonsense doctrine that the rules of evidence governing admissibility and proof of documents generally do not make sense to apply to statutes or judicial opinions — which are technically documents — because they are presented to the court as law, not to the jury as evidence.” Getty Petroleum Mktg., Inc., 391 F.3d at 322 . The district court can judicially notice a matter of law as a matter of fact,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Personnel Department, Inc. v. Professional Staff Leasing Corp.

3. “Parties generally must identify the law that is essential to their case.... [The relevant law must be provided to the court in a meaningful form. Where this law can be readily retrieved from a single citation, providing that citation to the court will usually suffice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Novak v. Craven