Ryan v. New York Telephone Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 777 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Burgos v. Hopkins (1994), DeCintio v. Westchester County Medical Center (1987)
178 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 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.
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 777 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“precludes a party from relitigating in a subsequent action or proceeding an issue clearly raised in a prior action or proceeding and decided against that party ... whether or not the tribunals or causes of action are the same.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the nature of the forum and the importance of the claim in the prior litigation, the incentive and initiative to litigate and the actual extent of litigation, the competence and expertise of counsel, the availability of new evidence [and] the differences in the applicable law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to the quasi-judicial determinations of administrative agencies when rendered pursuant to adjudicatory authority'”
10 later decisions 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.