Melbourne v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists (1973), Lynx, Inc. v. Ordnance Products, Inc. (1974)
38 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 Leimbach v. Nicholson · Fishman Construction Co. v. Hansen · Burrell v. Frisby · Bowie v. Martin
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, the pleadings, the depositions, and the affidavits submitted by the moving party set forth sufficient competent evidence to entitle him to summary judgment, it is incumbent upon the opposing party to present such evidence as will give rise to a triable issue of fact in order to prevent the entry of summary judgment.”
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.