Olmstead v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 federal appellate · 11 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First, we must determine if any foreign state has an interest in having its law applied. If no state has such an interest, the presumption that Michigan law will apply cannot be overcome. If a foreign state does have an interest in having its law applied, we must then determine if Michigan’s interests mandate that Michigan law be applied, despite the foreign interests.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Standard Fire Insurance v. Ford Motor Co. · 322 F. Supp. 2d 848 - Ammend v. BioPort, Inc.

2. “That is not to say that the state- in which the injury takes place will never have an interest in litigation arising out of the injury if none of its citizens are involved. The injury state always has an interest in conduct within its borders, whether or not its citizens are involved. ****** [I]n [a] case in which the state of injury does have an interest in having its law applied, such an [interest] analysis might be necessary and proper.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Kemp v. Pfizer, Inc. · 60 F. Supp. 2d 716 - Marks v. West Side Unlimited Corp.

3. “The operative fact is that neither party is a citizen of the state in which the wrong occurred. Since neither party in this case is a citizen of Wisconsin, that state has no interest in seeing its limitation of damage provision applied.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 60 F. Supp. 2d 716 - Marks v. West Side Unlimited Corp. · Sheldon v. PHH Corp.