Scotto v. Almenas’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.3d 105 · 1998
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 629 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell (2001), No. 03-7332 (2004)
24 federal appellate · 15 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Anderson v. Creighton
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 629 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not rely on conclusory allegations or unsubstantiated speculation”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely colorable, or is not significantly probative, summary judgment may be granted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`functionally comparable' to that of a judge,”
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.