Cheryl Ruffin-Steinback v. Suzanne dePasse’s Empirical Analysis
267 F.3d 457 · 2001
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Parks v. Laface Records (2003), Etw Corporation v. Jireh Publishing Inc (2003)
5 federal appellate · 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Roberts v. Auto-Owners Insurance · Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc. · Meyer v. Nottger · Sutherland v. Kennington Truck Service, Ltd
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he district court did not err in determining that Michigan law did not apply to her cause of action, and under Mississippi law, Earline Ruffin's defamation claim was properly dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Michigan law applies to a case unless there is a rational reason to displace it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a foreign state has an interest in having its law applied.”
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.