Rice v. CertainTeed Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Wallace v. Ohio Department of Commerce (2002), Boley v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2010)
11 federal appellate · 97 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 United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Moskovitz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center · O'Gilvie v. United States · United States v. Estate of Romani · Cosgrove v. Williamsburg of Cincinnati Management 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hoever violates this chapter is subject to a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, or any other appropriate relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Damages,' absent a restrictive modifier like `compensatory,' `actual,' `consequential' or `punitive,' is an inclusive term embracing the panoply of legally recognized pecuniary relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pecuniary compensation or indemnity, which may be recovered in the courts by any person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury, whether to his person, property, or rights, through the unlawful act or omission or negligence of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.