Orkin v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.3d 734 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena (2009), Diaz v. Davis (2008)
9 federal appellate · 12 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · 44 Cal. 3d 1103 - Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Gee v. Tenneco, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the state's highest appellate court has not decided the question presented, then [the federal court] must predict how the state's highest court would decide the question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, the three Cort questions that are not explicitly focused on legislative intent are actually indicia of legislative intent, such that the Cort test itself is focused entirely on intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘approximate state law as closely as possible in order to make sure that the vindication of the state right is without discrimination because of the federal forum.’”
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.