Wittlin v. Giacalone’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 20 · 1946
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer (1973), Khalil Semaan v. L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress (1964)
40 federal appellate · 31 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 Toebelman v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · Curry v. MacKenzie · Walling v. Fairmont Creamery Co. · Rossiter v. Vogel · Weisser v. Mursam Shoe Corp.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who moves for summary judgment has the burden of demonstrating clearly the absence of any genuine issue of fact, and that any doubt as to the existence of such an issue is resolved against the movant. The courts are quite critical of the papers presented by the moving party, but not of the opposing papers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.