Kalmich v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2015
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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) · 50 U.S.C. § 4101
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · The Harrisburg · Huntington v. Attrill · Griffin v. McCoach
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“23. That at a time unknown to the Plaintiff but after the termination of World War II the nation of Yugoslavia enacted Article 125 of the Criminal Code [Article 125] which provides that anyone who confiscated belongings of another during World War II, for nonmilitary purposes, would be subject to criminal prosecution. 24. That in 1965, the nation of Yugoslavia enacted Article 134(a) of its Criminal Code [Article 134(a)] which provides that there shall be no statute of limitations upon the prosecution of those accused of violations of Article 125. 25. That on or about August 16, 1946, Sec. 1 of the Law Concerning the Treatment of Property . . . Taken Away Prom the Owner by the Enemy or its Helpers [Section 1] became effective in Yugoslavia, said Law providing a civil cause of action for those whose belongings were confiscated by the German occupation force. 26. That, in 1953, Section 20 of the Yugoslavian Statute of Limitations, as amended [Section 20], became effective, said Section providing that the statute of limitations upon criminal actions shall serve as the statute of limitations upon civil actions if the conduct complained of in the civil action could subject the Defendant to a criminal prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kalmich v. Bruno“[T]he diversity court must hesitate in extending the law of the forum state in the absence of some indication from the courts of the forum that the extension would be desirable.”
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.