Ashton v. Cory’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 816 · 1986
Citation profile
340 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive (1989), United Steelworkers of America v. Phelps Dodge Corporation, a New York Corporation, Defendants (1989)
340 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Perez v. Ledesma · Moe v. Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation · Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, to determine whether there are any genuine issues of material fact and whether the district court correctly applied the relevant substantive law.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of ... express congressional action, we cannot infer that Congress intended impliedly to take the drastic step of carving out an exception to the Tax Injunction Act”
3 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.