Tahan v. Hodgson’s Empirical Analysis
662 F.2d 862 · 1981
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Laker Airways Limited v. Sabena Belgian World Airlines Klm Laker Airways Limited (1984), Allendale Leasing, Inc. v. Stone (1986)
20 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hilton v. Guyot · Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Henry McDonald v. F a Mabee · Griffin v. Griffin
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repugnant to fundamental notions of what is decent and just in the State where enforcement is sought.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there has been opportunity for a full and fair trial abroad before a court of competent jurisdiction, conducting the trial upon regular proceedings, after due citation or voluntary appearance of the defendant, and under a system of jurisprudence likely to secure an impartial administration of justice between the citizens of its own country and those of other countries, and there is nothing to show either prejudice in the court, or in the system of laws under which it was sitting, or fraud in procuring the judgment, or any other special reason why the comity of this nation should not allow it full effect....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly in clear-cut cases ought it to avail defendant.”
3 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.