Primock v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Ginter v. Palmer & Co. (1978), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado v. Sharp (1987)
38 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 Hatfield v. Barnes · Flanders v. Kochenberger · Capitol Amusement Co. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment sought shall be rendered forthwith 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 passagee.g. Ellerman v. Kite“[a]ny issue of [material] fact must be determined by the court or jury at a trial and should not be determined by the court on a motion for summary judgment.”
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.