Gilstrap v. Amtrak’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 559 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2013
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · The Fisheries Products Company, Receivers of the Fisheries Products Company v. Abraham S. See & Depew, Inc. · Downs v. Florida · Hazen v. Pasley · 24 Wash. App. 274 - Kuehn v. White
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what the highest state court would probably hold were it called upon to decide the issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“decisions of the state's highest court are to be accepted as defining state law unless the state court 'has later given clear and persuasive indication that its pronouncement will be modified, limited, or restricted.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. S.B.L., by and Through His Parent and Next Friend T.B., Individually, and as Parent and Next Friend B.D.C., Jr., by and Through His Parent and Next Friend C.J.C., Individually, and as Parent and Next Friend v. James A. Evans Elaine Brame, Hume School District, S.B.L., by and Through His Parent and Next Friend T.B., Individually, and as Parent and Next Friend B.D.C., Jr. By and Through His Parent and Next Friend C.J.C., Individually and as Parent and Next Friend v. James A. Evans, Elaine Brame Hume School District · Sbl Tb Bdc Cjc v. A Evans“In making this determination, a federal court may consider relevant state precedents, analogous decisions, considered dicta, scholarly works, and any other reliable data tending convincingly to show how the highest court in the state would decide the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.