Rivers v. Roadway Express, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
612 federal appellate · 175 district · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,472 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Bousley v. United States (1998), Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
612 federal appellate · 175 district · 121 state decisions — followed in 29 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
reviewedRivers v. Roadway Express, Inc. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Brown v. Allen · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond
Cited together with Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 1,472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] judicial construction of a statute is an authoritative statement of what the statute meant before as well as after the decision of the case giving rise to that construction.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when [the Supreme] Court construes a statute, it is explaining its understanding of what the statute has meant continuously since the date when it became law.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.