Wayne Ramsay v. James Bailey, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 706 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gonzalez v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1980), Freedson v. Commissioner (1978)
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Hagans v. Lavine · Noyd v. Bond · Desist 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“achieve the orderly and expeditious disposition of cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff was fully and repeatedly apprised of the possible imposition of the ... sanction [of dismissal]” the district court need not consider”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]owever novel and interesting may be these constitutional claims, it is our duty to decide this case on other grounds if possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Wade
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.