In re N-500L Cases’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Keller v. Prince George's County (1987), Segrets, Inc. v. Gillman Knitwear Co. (2000)
31 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 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 Richards v. United States · Curtis v. Loether · Ross v. Bernhard · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where one party has made a demand, others are entitled to rely on the demand with respect to issues covered by the demand and need not make an independent demand of their own.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a jury verdict in favor of [defendant] would not have been permitted to stand, and [therefore] the error in denying a jury trial to appellants on the issue of [defendant's] liability to plaintiffs was harmless”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Patco). Air Transport Association of America v. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Patco) Appeal of John Dwyer. In Re Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Patco). Air Transport Association of America v. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Patco), and Domenic v. Torchia · Air Transport Ass'n of America v. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization“[i]f the factual allegations underlying two claims are the same or if the issues `turn on the same matrix of facts' the issues are the same.”
2 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.