Kokins v. Teleflex, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.3d 1290 · 2010
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Bronson v. Swensen · Huddleston v. Dwyer · Krastev v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Colorado Court of Appeals decided Biosera [ , Inc. v. Forma Scientific , Inc. , 941 P.2d 284 (Colo. Ct. App. 1998) ], so it is not an 'intervening decision of the state's highest court. '”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must defer to the most recent decisions of the state's highest court”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decision of an intermediate appellate state court 'is a datum for ascertaining state law which is not to be disregarded by a federal court unless it is convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise.' " (quoting West v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. , 311 U.S. 223 , 237, 61 S.Ct. 179 , 85 L.Ed. 139 (1940) ) ). "[W]hen a panel of this Court has rendered a decision interpreting state law, that interpretation is binding on district courts in this circuit, and on subsequent panels of this Court, unless an intervening decision of the state's highest court has resolved the issue.”
2 later decisions 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.