Wilkinson v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 335 · 1945
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Arnstein v. Porter (1946), Bruce Construction Corp. v. United States ex rel. Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. (1957)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Richard v. Credit Suisse · Board of Public Instruction for County of Hernando v. Meredith
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very object of a motion for summary judgment is to separate what is formal or pretended in denial or averment from what is genuine and substantial, so that only the latter may subject a suitor to the burden of a trial.”
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.