Spinler v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Glacier Tennis Club at the Summit, LLC v. Treweek Construction Co. (2004), Hajenga v. Schwein (2007)
51 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 Montana Metal Buildings, Inc. v. Shapiro · Kizer v. Semitool, Inc. · McGinnis v. Hand · McGillen v. Plum Creek Timber Co. · Roe v. Kornder-Owen
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 53 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.”
2 later decisions 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.