Capone v. Nadig’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2015
5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Voinovich v. Quilter
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is only fair that the law of the state to which the patient has voluntarily traveled, and in which the doctor has chosen to conduct the [medical procedure], be applied to adjudicate the respective rights, duties, and obligations between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I concur with the vast majority of cases in finding that, the New Jersey Legislature, in providing for such limited recovery under the Survival Act, `was expressing its interest in protecting New Jersey defendants.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lebegern v. Forman“there is no conflict between the wrongful death acts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania”). 2 . The Lacey court's statement that the district court should”
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.