Siroonian v. Textron, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 289 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2001
7 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · 211 So. 2d 509 - Mitchell v. Craft · Texas Mortgage Services Corp. v. Guadalupe Savings & Loan Ass'n · Drake v. Bf Goodrich Company · Henry v. United States
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.
“In an action for wrongful death, the local law of the state where the injury occurred determines the rights and liabilities of the parties unless, with respect to the particular issue, some other state has a more significant relationship to the occurrence and the parties, in which event the local law of the other state will be applied (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“honor the construction of the statute placed on it by the courts of the state whose legislature enacted it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Contacts to be taken into account in applying the principles of § 6 to determine the law applicable to the issue include: (a) the place where the injury occurred; (b) the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred; (c) the domicil, residence, nationality, place of incorporation, and place of business of the parties; and (d) the place where the relationship, if any, between the parties is centered. These contacts are to be evaluated according to their relative importance with respect to the particular issue.”
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.