Kontrick v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
908 federal appellate · 154 district · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,447 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. (2006)
908 federal appellate · 154 district · 169 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedIn re Kontrick (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · Johnson v. Zerbst · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · United States v. Robinson · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger
Cited together with Eberhart v. United States · Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. · Bowles v. Russell · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Scarborough v. Principi
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 2,447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not for claim-processing rules, but only for prescriptions delineating the classes of cases (subject-matter jurisdiction) and the persons (personal jurisdiction) falling within a court's adjudicatory authority.'”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly Congress may determine a lower federal court's subject-matter jurisdiction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“'claim-processing rule, even if unalterable on a party's application,' does not reduce the adjudicatory domain of a tribunal and is ordinarily 'forfeited if the party asserting the rule waits too long to raise the point.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.