Ratliff v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably West v. Searle & Co. (1991), Cotten v. Fooks (2001)
4 federal appellate · 65 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 Harvey v. Eastman Kodak Co. · Armstrong v. Harrell
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If that procedure had occurred, the plaintiff would have had an election on whether to plead further or appeal. However, the dismissal order recites that it is on summary judgment and so plaintiff was never afforded a chance to plead further. Accordingly, we modify the order of the lower court to the extent that the dismissal is without prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orr v. Hudson
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.