Catz v. Rubenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 district · 580 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 609 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Hammer v. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Co. (1990), Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc. (1999)
3 federal appellate · 20 district · 580 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 United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Burns v. Hartford Hospital · Yanow v. Teal Industries, Inc. · Lopez v. Swyer · Bartha v. Waterbury House Wrecking Co.
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 609 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A material fact has been defined adequately and simply as a fact which will make a difference in the result of the case.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passage“Summary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, affidavits and any other proof submitted 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.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the burden is on the movant, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant and he is given the benefit of all favorable inferences that can be drawn.”
34 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.