Ford v. Philips Electronics Instruments Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Bowne of New York City, Inc. v. AmBase Corp. (1993), Parks v. United States (1982)
3 district · 6 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 Hickman v. Taylor · White v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad · Ceco Steel Products Corp. v. H. K. Porter Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he work product concept furnishes no shield against discovery, by interrogatories or by deposition, of the facts that the adverse party's lawyer has learned, or the persons from whom he has learned such facts, or the existence or nonexistence of documents, even though the documents themselves may not be subject to discovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Insofar as defendant’s question attempted to elicit from the witness the specific questions that plaintiff’s counsel posed to him, or even the area of the case to which he directed the majority of his questions, it exceeds the permissible bounds of discovery and begins to infringe on plaintiff’s counsel’s evaluation of the case. However, insofar as it was directed to the substance of the witness’ knowledge of relevant facts, it is clearly an acceptable line of inquiry.”
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.