Royal Foods Co. v. RJR Holdings Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.3d 1102 · 2001
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Environmental Defense Center, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.-Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (2003), Silvers v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (2005)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Malloy v. Hogan · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strong presumption that the plain language of the statute expresses congressional intent, which is `rebutted only in rare and exceptional circumstances, when a contrary legislative intent is clearly expressed.'”
1 later decision 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.