Kucel v. Walter E. Heller & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 67 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Kona Technology Corp. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (2000), Chaney v. Dreyfus Service Corp. (2010)
14 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · Lamar v. Micou · Missouri State Life Insurance v. Jones · Southern Leasing Partners, Ltd. v. McMullan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an obligation to call the applicability of another [forum's] law to the court's attention in time to be properly considered.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]or do we believe [the defendant] waived the issue by not raising it again until the motion for reconsideration of attorney's fees [which were allowed under Texas law, but not under Illinois law]. Having once properly notified the court of the issue, it satisfied its duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“take judicial notice of the content of the laws of every state in the Union”
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.