Ralis v. RFE/RL, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 1121 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably ALPO Petfoods, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co. (1990), Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · United States v. Orleans · MacKey v. United States · United States v. Schooner Peggy
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is quite incompatible with our fundamental notions of law that an act lawful at the time it was done can, at the stroke of the legislative pen, be rendered unlawful and the actor called to account for a completed now-condemned deed in the halls of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Supreme Court's teaching in this area is, upon analysis, decidedly unfriendly to statutory interpretations that would effect a latter-day burdening of a completed act--lawful at the time it was done--with retroactive liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court is to apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would result in manifest injustice or there is statutory direction or legislative history to the contrary.”
1 later decision 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.