No. 99-1081’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably City of Fayetteville v. Romine (2008), Smith v. BRT (2005)
14 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is to be granted only where evidence is such that no reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce Ritchey“single small cut of the lateral right eyelid and small scrapes of the right posterior knee and upper calf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilwal v. Nielsen“bruised knees and elevated blood pressure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilwal v. Nielsen
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.