Paca v. K-Mart Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Shovelin v. Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1993), Monett v. Dona Ana County Sheriff's Posse (1992)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Koenig v. Perez · Vigil v. Arzola · Vigil v. Arzola · Lukoski v. Sandia Indian 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though it has been said that summary judgment should not be granted if there is the ‘slightest doubt’ as to the facts, such statements are a rather misleading gloss on a rule which speaks in terms of ‘genuine issue as to any material fact,’ and would, if taken literally, mean that there could hardly ever be a summary judgment, for at least a slight doubt can be developed as to practically all things human. A better formulation would be that the party opposing the motion is to be given the benefit of all reasonable doubts in determining whether a genuine issue exists. If there are such reasonable doubts, summary judgment should be denied. A substantial dispute as to a material fact forecloses summary judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolford v. Lasater“Wrongful discharge requires proof that an employee performed an act favored by public policy or failed to perform a disfavored act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bigelow v. Bullard
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.