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190 F.3d 693 · 1999

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Gobert v. Caldwell (2006), Scanlan

10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 · Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “should not be granted unless 'it appears beyond a doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “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 judgment as a matter of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “neither the Fifth Circuit nor the Supreme Court had spoken”
    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.