Orvis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Brown v. Division of Water Rights of the Department of Natural Resources (2010), Jensen Ex Rel. Jensen v. Cunningham (2011)
226 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Higgins v. Salt Lake County · Harline v. Barker · Waddoups v. Amalgamated Sugar Co. · K & T, INC. v. Koroulis
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court reviews a trial court's legal conclusions and ultimate grant or denial of summary judgment for correctness and views the facts and all reasonable inferences drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
100 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage“must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
30 later decisions 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.