Tormo v. Yormark’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Cartel Capital Corp. v. Fireco of New Jersey (1980), McAdam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (1990)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Hanna v. Plumer · Palmer v. Hoffman · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By its terms, the rule [FRCP 56] applies `at the trial or upon the hearing of a motion or an interlocutory proceeding. . . .' Despite this language, however, courts and commentators have rejected the notion that the rule governs the use of deposition testimony at a hearing or a proceeding at which evidence in affidavit form is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Melton“Rule 32(a) will not bar the admissibility of the facts set forth in the depositions . . . because those facts will be offered, not in the form of prior deposition testimony, but in the form of testimony of presently available witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Melton“Generally, absent death or legal insanity of either party, the (attorney-client) relationship terminates only upon the accomplishment of the purpose for which the attorney was consulted, or upon mutual agreement of the parties.”
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.