Ash v. Cort’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 909 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Lombard's, Inc. v. Prince Manufacturing, Inc. (1985), Crateo, Inc. v. Intermark, Inc. (1976)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Borden Co. v. Sylk · Texaco, Inc. v. Borda
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an appeal has been taken from a judgment of a district court or before the taking of an appeal if the time therefor has not expired, the district court in which the judgment was rendered may allow ....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * to situations where, for one reason or another, testimony might be lost to a prospective litigant unless taken immediately____ Such testimony would thereby be perpetuated or kept in existence and, if necessary, would be available for use at such subsequent time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 27 properly applies only in that special category of cases where it is necessary to prevent testimony from being lost.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In the Matter of the Application of Deiulemar Compagnia Di Navigazione S.P.A. For the Perpetuation of Certain Evidence v. M/v Allegra v. Pacific Eternity, S.A. Golden Union Shipping Co. S.A., Movants-Appellants · In the Matter of the Application of Deiulemar Compagnia Di Navigazione Spa for the Perpetuation of Certain Evidence v. M/v Allegra
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.