Ford Motor Co. v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 329 · 1950
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 33 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Norwood v. Kirkpatrick (1955), Factors Etc., Inc. v. Pro Arts, Inc. (1978)
122 federal appellate · 33 district · 3 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · In Re Peterson
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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“burden of making out a strong case for a transfer.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * probably be incorrectible on appeal [after final judgent], for petitioners could hardly show that a different result would have been reached had the suit been transferred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * we are often faced with indeterminate and indeterminable standards; reasonable notice, reasonable cause, gross negligence, the requisite proof in fraud or in a criminal prosecution. Much of life depends upon such choices * * *." Ford Motor Co. v. Ryan, 182 F.2d 329, 332 (2nd Cir. 1950).”
2 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.