Forsyth v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 1527 · 1994
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 589 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Ragas v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (1998)
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2517 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 589 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sift through the record in search of evidence”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“identify specific evidence in the record, and ... articulate the 'precise manner' in which that evidence support[s] their claim.”
8 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.