Sullivan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Ginter v. Palmer & Co. (1978), Fritz v. Regents of the University of Colorado (1978)
84 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 Bruce Construction Corp. v. United States ex rel. Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. · Shea v. Pilette · Field v. Sisters of Mercy · Reed Ex Rel. Bulger v. Barlow
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'genuine issue' cannot be raised by counsel simply by means of argument, be it before the trial court or here.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[W]hen a movant makes out a convincing showing that genuine issues of fact are lacking, we require that the adversary adequately demonstrate by receivable facts that a real, not formal, controversy exists, and, of course, he does not do that by mere denial, or holding back evidence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that no matter how enticing, in an era of congested dockets, is a device to dispose of cases without the delay and expense of traditional trials with their sometime cumbersome and time-consuming characteristics, summary judgment was not devised for, must not be used as, a substitute for trial.... Consequently, where the proceedings have indicated that a genuine issue existed, we have consistently rejected appealing shortcuts and not the less so even though it was likely that on a trial, the trier would resolve the disputed issues as one of fact in the same manner as when thought to have been one of law alone.”
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.