Deskins v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2008
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Oliver v. Kaiser Community Health Foundation · City of Cuyahoga Falls v. Bowers · Wyler v. Tripi · Melnyk v. Cleveland Clinic · Greenhills Home Owners Corp. v. Village of Greenhills
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a decision of a court of supreme jurisdiction overruling a prior decision is retrospective in its operation, and the effect is not that the former was bad law, but that it never was the law.”
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.