Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc. v. Kirk Line’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1508 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Resolution Trust Corp. v. Dunmar Corp. (1995), Brown v. Crawford (1990)
29 federal appellate · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 1981 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 49 U.S.C. § 11707
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Van Dusen v. Barrack
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.
“Since the Jones Act provides an independent basis of federal jurisdiction over the non-diverse respondent ... the rule of Strawbridge v. Curtiss ... does not require dismissal of the claims against the diverse respondents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“anomaly that would be created by `not allowing a plaintiff to do in one federal suit what he would be entitled to do in two separate federal suits.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inure[d] to the benefit of any independent contractors performing services including stevedoring”
2 later decisions 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.