Liakakos v. Cigna Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2016
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Textile Workers Union v. Darlington Manufacturing Co. · Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton · District of Columbia v. Murphy · Emrich v. Touche Ross & Co. · Sadat v. Mertes
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ascribe little importance to one of its citizens who has become naturalized and resides in the United States”
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.