Hines v. Elkhart General Hospital’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 646 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Beatty v. Akron City Hospital (1981), Murrey v. United States (1996)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If anything is clear and well established from the decision in Erie v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 , 58 S.Ct. 817 , 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938), and its progeny, it is the principle that the law to be applied by a federal court in a diversity case is the law of the State, and for that reason “a federal court adjudicating a State-created right solely because of the diversity of citizenship of the parties is . .. only another court of the State .... ” Guaranty Trust Co. v. York, 326 U.S. 99, 108 , 65 S.Ct. 1464, 1469 , 89 L.Ed. 2079 (1945). We find nothing in the provisions of the Act itself which prevents the Act’s application in the Indiana federal courts exercising jurisdiction under diversity of citizenship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Choudhuri
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.