Margolis v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 850 · 1998
Citation profile
136 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 409 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Richard Leo Deorle v. Greg Rutherford Mick Grey County of Butte (2001), Southern California Gas Company v. City of Santa Ana (2003)
136 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Warren III v. City of Carlsbad · Shieh v. State Bar · Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc.
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 409 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a grant of summary judgment de novo and must determine whether the district court correctly applied the law and if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, there are no genuine issues of material fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate[d] that the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict in [their] favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provide any basis or factual support for [their] assertions that further discovery would lead”
2 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.