500 F. Supp. 2d 237 - Faggionato v. Lerner’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2022
2 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Fw/pbs Inc II v. City of Dallas Mjr Inc · Raines v. Byrd
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ultimately, the responsibility for correctly identifying and applying‘foreign law rests with the court. In acting under Rule 44.1, a court may reject even un-contradicted expert testimony and reach its own decisions on the basis of independent- examination of foreign legal authorities. The Court of Appeals has urged district courts to invoke the flexible provisions of Rule 44.1 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'persuasive force of the opinions' expressed that is conclusive under Rule 44.1”
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.