Madeirense Do Brasil S/A v. Stulman-Emrick Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.2d 399 · 1945
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Arnstein v. Porter (1946), Doehler Metal Furniture Co. v. United States (1945)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Galloway v. United States · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Martin · Pence v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the ruling [on a motion for summary judgment] is to be made on the record the parties have actually presented, not on one potentially possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But at least a summary disposition of issues of damage should be on evidence which a jury would not be at liberty to disbelieve and which would require a directed verdict for the moving party.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If one may * * * reserve one’s evidence when faced with a motion for summary judgment there would be little opportunity ‘to pierce the allegations of fact in the pleadings’ or to determine that the issues formally raised were in fact sham or otherwise unsubstantial. It is hard to see why a litigant could not then generally avail himself of this means of delaying presentation of his case until the trial. So easy a method of rendering useless the very valuable remedy of summary judgment is not suggested in any part of its history or in any one of the applicable decisions.””
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.