Ringwald v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 768 · 1982
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. O'Neil (1983), Kuehne Nagel v. Geosource Inc Geosource Inc (1989)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co. · Bogosian v. Gulf Oil Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We found that: 20 While a consolidation may not in every respect merge separate actions into a single suit, we see no reason why a proper consolidation may not cause otherwise separate actions to thenceforth be treated as a single judicial unit for purposes of Rule 54(b) when the consolidation is clearly unlimited and the actions could originally have been brought as a single suit. 21 Ringwald, 675 F.2d at 771 (footnote omitted). Thus, since consolidation of causes that could have been filed as a single suit existed, and the consolidation was”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consolidation. When actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before the court, it may order a joint hearing or trial of any or all the matters in issue in the actions; it may order all the actions consolidated; and it may make such orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“notwithstanding that the judgment or order in question dispose[d] of all the claims and parties in one of the original actions.”
3 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.