Ricks v. Abbott Laboratories’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · The Guilford National Bank of Greensboro, Administrator C.T.A., D.B.N., of the Estate of Joseph M. Coble, Deceased v. Southern Railway Company, and Third-Party v. Garland Batchelor, of the Estate of Annie J. Coble, Deceased, Third-Party · Turner v. Imperial Stores · Fox v. Gates Corp.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trier of fact ... does not need help understanding the ordinary grief, anxiety, anger, and frustration that any person feels when something bad occurs.”
2 later decisions 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.