Green v. Forney Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 243 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Prakash v. American University (1984), Gordon v. National Youth Work Alliance (1982)
19 federal appellate ·
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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · William J. BEVERLY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LONE STAR LEAD CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“outside matters which are attached to a motion to dismiss without first converting it into a motion for summary judgment “if the material is pertinent to the question of the District Court’s jurisdiction since it is always the obligation of a federal court to determine if it has jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“feels he will be unable for health reasons or otherwise, to adequately represent his client he has the duty to withdraw from the case.”
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.