State v. Goggin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
476 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 476 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Hammer v. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Co. (1990), Connelly v. Housing Authority of New Haven (1990)
476 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Hansberry v. Lee · Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission
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 476 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The movant must show that it is quite clear what the truth is, and that excludes any real doubt as to the existence of any genuine issue of material fact.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he party seeking summary judgment has the burden of showing the nonexistence of any material fact.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ummary 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.”
41 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.