Trufant v. Autocon, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 308 · 1984
Citation profile
56 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably King v. Ionization International, Inc. (1987), Wilhelm v. Rotman (2012)
56 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Ass'n · United States v. Renfro · Alaniz v. California Processors, Inc. · Helms v. Jones
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consent must be explicit, and will not be casually inferred from the conduct of the parties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. Collins · Withrow v. Roell
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.