Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2010
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the nature of the function performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foust v. C
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.