Wolfgang v. Mid-America Motorsports, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 1515 · 1997
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Lockard v. Pizza Hut, Inc. (1998), Smith v. Northwest Financial Acceptance, Inc. (1997)
78 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 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 Francis v. Franklin · Brewster v. Derwinski · Henderson v. Brown · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the material facts are not in dispute and the denial of summary judgment is based on the interpretation of a purely legal question, such a decision is appealable after final judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we may not weigh the evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or substitute our judgment for that of the jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'only if the evidence points but one way and is susceptible to no reasonable inferences supporting the party opposing the motion.'”
4 later decisions 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.