Lambert v. Kysar’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1110 · 1993
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 91 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Terra International, Inc. v. Mississippi Chemical Corp. (1997), Lipcon v. Underwriters at Lloyd's of London (1998)
59 federal appellate · 91 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co.
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contract-related tort claims involving the same operative facts as a parallel claim for breach of contract”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“as the outcome is the same under the substantive law of either jurisdiction”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]s we discern no material discrepancy between Washington state law and federal law, we need confront neither the choice-of-law issue nor the daunting question whether forum selection clauses are to be treated as substantive or procedural for Erie purposes.”
3 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.