Osterweil v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the New York Court of Appeals has addressed the issue and, if not, whether the decisions of other New York courts permit us to predict how the Court of Appeals would resolve it; (2) whether the question is of importance to the state and may require value judgments and public policy choices; and (3) whether the certified question is determinative of a claim before us.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Executive Plaza, LLC v. Peerless Insurance · Pasternack v. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings

2. “Is an applicant who owns a part-time residence in New York but makes his permanent domicile elsewhere eligible for a New York handgun license in the city or county where his part-time residence is located?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Osterweil v. Bartlett

3. “determinative questions of New York law that are involved in a case pending before us for which no controlling precedent of the Court of Appeals exists.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Faltynowicz v. Battery Park City Authority