John F. Ryan v. Charles D. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 275 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Boxes of Boned Beef Weighing Approximately Pounds (1984), Centurion Industries, Inc. v. Warren Steurer & Associates (1981)
14 federal appellate · 4 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 Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole · Parham v. J. L. · Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp. · Perel v. Vanderford
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only in circumstances which do not show a reasonable ground for the conclusion that vexatiousness existed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relevant to the subject matter involved in the pending action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liew v. Breen
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.