Dougherty v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
269 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Fogarty v. Rashaw (1984), Batick v. Seymour (1982)
269 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 Plouffe v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Dorazio v. M. B. Foster Electric Co. · Rathkopf v. Pearson · Hennessey v. Hennessey · Kasowitz v. Mutual Construction Co.
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`To satisfy his burden the movant must make a showing that it is quite clear what the truth is, and that excludes any real doubt as to the existence of any genuine issue of material fact.'”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court may appropriately render summary judgment when the documents submitted demonstrate that there is no genuine issue of material fact remaining between the parties and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“no longer limited to `young' children so long as `the children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in intermeddling with it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it.'”
2 later decisions 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.