Lafferty v. St. Riel’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.3d 72 · 2007
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Liggon-Redding v. Estate of Sugarman (2011), In re Limitnone, LLC (2008)
7 federal appellate · 10 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1631 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Van Dusen v. Barrack · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action or appeal to any other such court in which the action or appeal could have been brought at the time it was filed or noticed, and the action or appeal shall proceed as if it had been filed in or noticed for the court to which it is transferred on the date upon which it was actually filed in or noticed for the court from which it is transferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] federal court must apply the substantive laws of its forum state in diversity actions ... and these include state statutes of limitations.”
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.