Harris Corp. v. Comair, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 1069 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably White v. Turfway Park Racing Ass'n (1990), Matter of Baldwin-United Corp. (1985)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Downs v. Florida
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, the Kentucky Supreme Court has recently gone much further and held that Kentucky law will apply to a contract issue if there are sufficient contacts and no overwhelming interests to the contrary, even if the parties have voluntarily agreed to apply the law of a different state. Breeding v. Massachusetts Indemnity and Life Insurance Company, 633 S.W.2d 717 (Ky.1982). Thus, it is apparent that Kentucky applies its own law unless there are overwhelming interests to the contrary. Harris Corp. v. Comair, Inc., 712 F.2d at 1071 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under this approach the court hearing the case must apply the law of the jurisdiction which, “because of its relationship or contract with the occurrence or the parties, has the greatest concern with the specific issue raised in the litigation.” Breeding, 633 S.W.2d at 719 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question of negligence, unquestionably an issue to be resolved under the laws of Kentucky, with the question of the rights of the parties under a contract of employment,”
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.