Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that Second Circuit decisions become the law of the circuit and are binding upon all inferior courts
• reversing NLRB order and declining to remand case to Board, in part because of Board’s express refusal to follow Second Circuit precedent
• an agency is bound to follow the law of the circuit
• an agency is bound to follow the law of the circuit
• Where the New Jersey Supreme Court has not squarely addressed the issue at bar, the federal court sitting in diversity “must be governed by a prediction of how the state’s highest' court would decide were it confronted with the problem.”
• under Ohio law, although injury from drug ingestion manifested itself at a certain time, running of the statute of limitations was tolled until the plaintiffs knew, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known the cause of the injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

200 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Harsco Corp. v. Lucjan Zlotnicki
  Third Circuit· 1986-01-23· cited 816×
• Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-05-29· cited 234×
• George BAILEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Y & O PRESS COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-08-16· cited 227×
• Mario Lopez v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-08-24· cited 221×
• Aloe Coal Company and Commercial Union Insurance Company v. Clark Equipment Co.
  Third Circuit· 1987-05-04· cited 175×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1994-09-27· cited 165×
• Temistocles Ramirez De Arellano v. Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-10-05· cited 154×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1994-08-12· cited 128×
• Weber v. Dell
  Second Circuit· 1986-11-06· cited 98×
• Craig v. Lake Asbestos of Quebec, Ltd.
  Third Circuit· 1988-03-31· cited 96×
• Paul S. Dopp v. Htp Corporation, Paul S. Dopp v. Htp Corporation, Paul S. Dopp v. Htp Corporation, Island Resorts, S.A.
  First Circuit· 1991-10-04· cited 94×
• Nat'l Org. Of Veterans Advocates v. Secr'y Of Veterans Affairs
  Federal Circuit· 2001-08-16· cited 89×
• Alvin DILLINGER, Appellant, v. CATERPILLAR, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Wheeler MacHinery Company, Inc., a Utah Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1992-04-01· cited 87×
• Zamboni v. Stamler
  Third Circuit· 1988-05-17· cited 86×
• In Re Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation
  S.D. New York· 1991-08-30· cited 82×
• Kifer v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-11-20· cited 79×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Blue Rock Shopping Center, Inc., a Delaware Corporation. Appeal of Max Ambach and Rose Ambach
  Third Circuit· 1985-06-19· cited 78×
• Cooper Distributing Co., Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, in 94-5570 v. Amana Refrigeration, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1995-09-28· cited 78×
• Smith v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-07-20· cited 74×
• Selected Risks Insurance Company v. Bruno, Anthony v. And Bruno, Lucy C., His Wife, and Bruno, Jr., Anthony
  Third Circuit· 1983-09-27· cited 73×

Other cases named Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-12· cited 1×
• Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  N.D. Illinois· 1987-07-20