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261 F.3d 127 · 2001

Citation profile

99
cited by 99 later decisions
2
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Weixel v. Board of Education (2002), McEachin v. McGuinnis (2004)

16 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions

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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 Conley v. Gibson · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Armstrong v. Manzo

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

  1. “Summary judgment is appropriate where there are no genuine disputes concerning any material facts, and where the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “be upheld against equal protection challenge if there is any reasonable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the classification.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Concerned Home Care Providers, Inc. v. Cuomo · Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush
  3. “[t]he Secretary of State shall, upon certification ..., refuse to issue a passport to”
    2 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.