Petrella v. Kashlan’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 1340 · 1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2012
10 federal appellate · 7 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Darden v. Wainwright · United States v. Adams · Mellk v. Sarahson · Green v. Bittner
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“New Jersey's interest in this case is no less than Florida's and the judge correctly held that its law of damages should be applied.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“thus Florida obviously has a legitimate interest in the quantum of damages for his death being fixed under Florida law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lebegern v. Forman
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.