Gold v. Wolpert’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1327 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Heller Financial, Inc. v. Midwhey Powder Co. (1989), Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Puerto Rico (1990)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Toomer v. Witsell · Carducci v. Regan · 1 Ill. App. 3d 890 - Zamouski v. Gerrard
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a diversity action, federal courts must follow the forum’s — Illinois—choice-of-law rules. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., 313 U.S. 487 , 61 S.Ct. 1020 , 85 L.Ed. 1477 (1941). Real estate brokerage contracts are interpreted according to contract law principles. Coldwell Banker & Co. v. Karlock, 686 F.2d 596, 599 (7th Cir.1982). We have determined that, in choice-of-law disputes involving contracts, Illinois courts would apply the law of the jurisdiction with the most significant contacts. See, e.g., Palmer v. Beverly Enterprises, 823 F.2d 1105, 1107 (7th Cir.1987). Contacts to be considered include the place of contracting, negotiation, performance, location of the subject matter of the contract, and the domicile, residence, place of incorporation, and business of the parties. Id. at 1109-10____ In finders’ fee cases specifically, where both the place of contracting and the place of performance arguably occurred in several states, some courts have identified the most sig nificant contacts as: (1) the location of the acquired company (here, property); (2) the state where the closing or acquisition occurred; (3) the state where the benefits accrue; and (4) the state where the offer to perform the finder’s services was sent. Zlotnick v. MacArthur, 550 F.Supp. 371, 374 (N.D.Ill.1982); Ehrman v. Cook Elec. Co., 468 F.Supp. 98, 99-101 (N.D.Ill.1979), aff'd in relevant part, 630 F.2d 529 , 530 n. 1 (7th Cir.1980) (per curiam). The place of contract ... [i]n Illi”
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.