Tyler v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 458 · 1995
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Gleason v. Mesirow Financial, Inc. (1997), Windy City Metal Fabricators & Supply, Inc. v. CIT Technology Financing Services, Inc. (2008)
44 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] litigant who fails to press a point by supporting it with pertinent authority, or by showing why it is sound despite a lack of supporting authority, forfeits the point.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has no duty to research and construct legal arguments available to a party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“argument must contain the contentions of the appellant on the issues presented, and the reasons therefor, with citations to the authorities, statutes, and parts of the record relied on.”
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.