Long v. Sears Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Levine v. American Psychological Ass'n (2014), Chandler v. W.E. Welch & Associates, Inc. (2008)
1 federal appellate · 21 district ·
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 New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · Robnett v. United States · International Oilfield Divers, Inc. v. Pickle · Hercules & Co. v. Shama Restaurant Corp. · Kuwait Airways Corp. v. American Security Bank, N.A.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A false conflict exists when either (1) the laws of the interested states are the same; (2) when those laws, though different, produce the same result when applied to the facts at issue; or (3) when the policies of one state would be advanced by the application of its laws and the policies of the states whose laws are claimed to be in conflict would not be advanced by application of their law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) An action for breach of any contract for sale must be commenced within four years after the cause of action has accrued. By the original agreement the parties may reduce the period of limitation to not less than one year but may not extend it. (2) A cause of action accrues when the breach occurs, regardless of the aggrieved party’s lack of knowledge of the breach. A breach of warranty occurs when tender of delivery is made, except that where a warranty explicitly extends to future performance of the goods and discovery of the breach must await the time of such performance the cause of action accrues when the breach is or should have been discovered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relevant policies of the forum and of other interested states and the relative interests of those states in the determination of the particular issues.” Long, 877 F.Supp. at 11 (quoting Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Law § 6(2) (1971)). The state-sponsored terrorism exception embodied in § 1605(a)(7) is”
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.