Allison v. ITE Imperial Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 137 · 1991
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Skotak v. Tenneco Resins, Inc. (1992), Jones v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1991)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Salve Regina College v. Russell · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · In re Disbarment of Sabiston
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) the needs of the interstate and international systems, (b) the relevant policies of the forum, (c) the relevant policies of other interested states and the relative interests of those states in the determination of the particular issue, (d) the protection of justified expectations, (e) the basic policies underlying the particular field of law, . (f) certainty, predictability and uniformity of result, and (g) ease in the determination and application of the law to be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“approach). Accordingly, the district court's reliance on Allison's choice of law analysis is misplaced to the extent that the Mississippi choice of law rules at issue in that case provided that when contacts do not favor a particular state, the law of the state where the injury occurred should control, unless other considerations point to a”
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.