Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1,507 federal appellate · 98 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,023 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983)
1,507 federal appellate · 98 district · 222 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1407
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States
Cited together with Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States · Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller · Flanagan v. United States
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 3,023 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party must ordinarily raise all claims of error in a single appeal following final judgment on the merits.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
58 later decisions 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.