Ryman v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.3d 993 · 2007
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Slatkin v. Neilson (2008), Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2010)
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Lewis v. Telephone Employees Credit Union · Vestar Development Ii, Llc, an Arizona Limited Liability v. General Dynamics Corporation, a Corporation · Swirsky v. Carey · 195 Or. App. 134 - Yeager v. Providence Health System Oregon · Yeager v. PROVIDENCE HEALTH SYSTEM OREGON
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen ... a federal court is required to apply state law, and ... there is no relevant precedent from the state's highest court, but ... there is relevant precedent from the state's intermediate appellate court, the federal court must follow the state intermediate appellate court decision unless the federal court finds convincing evidence that the state's supreme court likely would not follow it”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal court is obligated to follow the decisions of the state's intermediate appellate courts”
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.