Pasternak v. Achorn’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Relies on McInnis v. A.M.F., Inc. · Conway v. Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc. · Sours v. General Motors Corp. · Spinosa v. International Harvester Co. · Conway v. Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The seat belt exclusionary rule falls in the ‘gray area’ between state evidentiary rules on ‘housekeeping matters,’ which yield in federal court to the Federal Rules of Evi dence, and those evidentiary rules, such as the rules of privilege, which are so enmeshed with substantive state policy that most federal courts have chosen to follow them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morton v. Brockman
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.