Fischl v. Armitage’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 50 · 1997
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Jeffreys v. The City of New York (2005), McClellan v. Smith (2006)
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. · Farmer v. Brennan · Bourjaily v. United States · Whitley v. Albers · Colon v. Coughlin
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]redibility assessments, choices between conflicting versions of the events, and the weighing of evidence are matters for the jury, not for the court on a motion for summary judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to succeed on a claim for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of his constitutional rights, the plaintiff must show by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was personally involved in the constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Calderon“weighing of the evidence, [ ] drawing of inferences ..., and [ ] assessments of [a party's] credibility[are] matters that [are] not within the province of the court on a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision 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.