Lloyd v. Loeffler’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 489 · 1982
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Ankenbrandt Lr Sr v. A Richards (1992), Twohy v. First National Bank (1985)
59 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 1073 · 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 42 U.S.C. § 663 (§ 463 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Sanford's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At [the exception’s] core are certain types of cases, well illustrated by divorce, that the federal courts are not, as a matter of fact, competent tribunals to handle. The typical divorce decree provides for alimony payable in installments until the wife remarries, and if there are children it will provide for custody, visitation rights, and child support payments as well. These remedies — alimony, custody, visitation, and child support — often entail continuing judicial supervision of a volatile family situation. The federal courts are not well suited to this task. They are not local institutions, they do not have staffs of social workers, and there is too little commonality between family law adjudication and the normal responsibilities of federal judges to give them the experience they would need to be able to resolve domestic disputes with skill and sensitivity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It seems absurd to hold that since a fugitive might be domiciled anywhere or maybe even nowhere ..., the act of becoming a fugitive puts a person beyond the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Probably the last domicile of the fugitive before he fled should be his domicile for diversity purposes----This is a simple rule, and avoids rewarding the fugitive for his elusiveness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of the conspiracy concept . . . is not to punish merely preparatory conduct — a more suitable function for criminal law than for tort law — but to identify the tortfeasors.”
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.