National Ass'n of Radiation Survivors v. Turnage’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc. (1988), Adamson v. Bowen (1988)
7 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 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. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 28 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The obligation to retain discoverable materials is an affirmative one; it requires that the agency or corporate officers having notice of discovery obligations communicate those obligations to employees in possession of discoverable materials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where one party wrongfully denies another the evidence necessary to establish a fact in dispute, the court must draw the strongest allowable inferences in favor of the aggrieved party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unnecessary consumption of the Court's time and resources”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Gravel
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.