Warner v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 1345 · 1969
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1996
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. · Modern Dairy Co. v. Department of Revenue · Wunderle v. Wunderle · Orr v. Hodgson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the rights of a litigant aré dependent upon the law of a particular state, the court of the forum must do its best (not its worst) to determine what that law is. It must use its judicial brains, not a pair of scissors and a paste pot. Our judicial pro cess is not mere syllogistic deduction, except at its worst.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Erie and its progeny do not require an automatic application of the last highest state court determination”
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.