Kritikos v. Palmer Johnson, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 418 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably New Burnham Prairie Homes, Inc. v. Village of Burnham (1990), Kostelec v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1995)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the parties fail to consider the choice of law in a diversity case, the substantive law of the forum is presumed to control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of (1) furnishing or offering or promising to furnish, or (2) accepting or offering or promising to accept, a valuable consideration in compromising or attempting to compromise a claim which was disputed as to either validity or amount, is not admissible to prove liability for or invalidity of the claim or its amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to encourage settlement. The fear is that settlement negotiations will be inhibited if the parties know that their statements may later be used as admissions of liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burdick v. Koerner
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.