Firestone v. K Firestone’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 557 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 712 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 217 F. Supp. 2d 59 - Shekoyan v. Sibley International Corp. (2002), United States v. Philip Morris Inc. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 557 district · 3 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 Foman v. Davis · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County
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 712 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Rule 59(e) motion is discretionary and need not be granted unless the district court finds that there is an intervening change of controlling law, the availability of new evidence, or the need to correct a clear error or prevent manifest injustice.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is an abuse of discretion to deny leave to amend unless there is sufficient reason”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause statute of limitations issues often depend on contested questions of fact, dismissal is appropriate only if the complaint on its face is conclusively time-barred.”
9 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.