Whittle’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 district ·
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 DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Santos v. District Council of New York City · Ghartey v. St. John's Queens Hospital
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when it is sufficiently ripe that one can maintain suit on it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank's v. Ross
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.