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← 2000 ME 84 - Burdzel v. Sobus

Burdzel v. Sobus’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

34 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on CRY v. Cote · Sacre v. Victor L. Sacre People's Savings Bank · Barnes v. Zappia · Carroll v. City of Portland · Prescott v. State Tax Assessor

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

  1. “We will affirm a grant of summary judgment if the record reflects that there is no genuine issue of material fact and the movant is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] genuine issue of material fact exists when the evidence requires a fact-finder to choose between competing versions of the truth.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “only the portions of the record referred to, and the material facts set forth in the [M.R. Civ. P. 56(h)] statements.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.