Ricks v. Riverwood International Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 1016 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2023
17 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Lanear v. Safeway Grocery · Johnson v. Arkansas State Police
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`similarly situated in all relevant respects.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] factual finding that is supported by substantial evidence on the record cannot be clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the employer has terminated a plaintiff due to acts of the plaintiff, the plaintiff has the burden of showing that his and the more favorably treated employee’s acts were of 'comparable seriousness.' ”); McAlester v. United Air Lines, Inc., 851 F.2d 1249, 1261 (10th Cir.1988) (”
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.