Byrd v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
285 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 286 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 173 Ohio App. 3d 696 - Birch v. Cuyahoga County Probate Court (2007), Koprivec v. Rails-to-Trails of Wayne Cty. (Slip Opinion) (2018)
285 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Dresher v. Burt · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Westfield Insurance v. Galatis
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 286 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An affidavit of a party opposing summary judgment that contradicts former deposition testimony of that party may not, without sufficient explanation, create a genuine issue of material fact to defeat the motion for summary judgment.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“the benefit of all favorable inferences when evidence is reviewed for the existence of genuine issues of material facts.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“over facts that might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law”
14 later decisions 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.