Fletcher v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Owen Lumber Co. v. Chartrand (2007), Harris v. Richards (1994)
2 district · 66 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 Glenn v. Fleming · Bacon v. Mercy Hosp. of Ft. Scott · Bright v. Cargill, Inc. · Bank IV Wichita, National Ass'n v. Arn, Mullins, Unruh, Kuhn & Wilson · Plummer Development, Inc. v. Prairie State Bank
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is proper where the only question or questions presented are questions of law.”
1 later decision 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.