Wohl v. Keene’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 8 district ·

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

1. ““The diversity jurisdiction was not conferred for the benefit of the federal courts or to serve their convenience. Its purpose was generally to afford to suitors an opportunity in such cases, at their option, to assert their rights in the federal rather than in the state courts. In the absence of some recognized public policy or defined principle guiding the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred, which would in exceptional cases warrant its non-exercise, it has from the first been deemed to be the duty of the federal courts, if their jurisdiction is properly invoked, to decide questions of state law whenever necessary to the rendition of a judgment.” 320 U.S. at 234 , 64 S.Ct. at 11 , quoted in Wohl, 476 F.2d at p. 175 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 409 F. Supp. 497 - Vintage Imports, Ltd. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. · 357 F. Supp. 894 - Louthian v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company

2. “As a general rule, when a party knows the facts and voluntarily accepts the benefits of a judgment, he thus waives any errors in the decree and estops himself from appealing the decree.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Tudor Associates, Ltd., Ii, a Nebraska Limited Partnership, Debtor. Nicholas C. Chmil, Jr. James H. Markley Gerald Nissman Leonard Weiss Robert J. Zullo Tudor Associates, Ltd., II v. Rulisa Operating Company, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New British Woods Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New Yorktowne Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership Aj & Aj Servicing, Incorporated, a New Jersey Corporation Johnson Matthey Bankers, Limited of London, and A.T. Parsons, Jr. Import Export Management Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation Paul Garfinkle O.C.G. Enterprises, Incorporated, a Massachusetts Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, an Ohio Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, a Nevada Corporation Berolina Handels, A.G., a Swiss Corporation, in Re Tudor Associates, Ltd., Ii, a Nebraska Limited Partnership, Debtor. Nicholas C. Chmil, Jr. James H. Markley Gerald Nissman Leonard Weiss Robert J. Zullo Tudor Associates, Ltd., II v. Johnson Matthey Bankers, Limited of London, Rulisa Operating Company, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New British Woods Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New Yorktowne Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership Aj & Aj Servicing, Incorporated, a New Jersey Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, an Ohio Corporation, and A.T. Parsons, Jr. Import Export Management Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation Paul Garfinkle O.C.G. Enterprises, Incorporated, a Massachusetts Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, a Nevada Corporation Siby Land Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation Berolina Handels, A.G., a Swiss Corporation, in Re Tudor Associates, Ltd., Ii, a Nebraska Limited Partnership, Debtor. Nicholas C. Chmil, Jr. James H. Markley Gerald Nissman Leonard Weiss Robert J. Zullo Tudor Associates, Ltd., II v. Rulisa Operating Company, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New British Woods Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership New Yorktowne Associates, a New Jersey Limited Partnership, and A.T. Parsons, Jr. Import Export Management Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation Aj & Aj Servicing, Incorporated, a New Jersey Corporation Paul Garfinkle O.C.G. Enterprises, Incorporated, a Massachusetts Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, an Ohio Corporation Executive Management Trustees, Incorporated, a Nevada Corporation Siby Land Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation Berolina Handels, A.G., a Swiss Corporation Johnson Matthey Bankers, Limited of London · Chmil v. Rulisa Operating Co.

3. “Abstention is not appropriate solely to avoid the decision of difficult state law questions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Woodward & Lothrop, Inc. v. Neall