Ryan v. Foster & Marshall, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 460 · 1977
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Simon v. Solomon (1982), Coursen v. A.H. Robins Co. (1985)
29 federal appellate · 7 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Blackie v. Barrack · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers · Flaks v. Koegel · Bertha Hecht, and v. Harris, Upham & Co., a Partnership, Harris, Upham & Co., Inc., a Corporation, And
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here state law is to be applied, this court will not overrule the district court's interpretation of state law unless it is clearly wrong, particularly when the highest state court has not passed on the matter.”
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.