Amaker v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.3d 677 · 2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Vermont Teddy Bear Co. v. 1-800 BEARGRAM Co. (2004), Reed v. Bennett (2002)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Maggette v. Dalsheim · McCall v. Pataki · Irby v. New York City Transit Authority
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the non-moving party 'chooses the perilous path of failing to submit a response to a summary judgment motion, the district court may not grant the motion without first examining the moving party's submission to determine if it has met its burden of demonstrating that no material issue of fact remains for trial.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“summary judgment must be denied even if no opposing evidentiary matter is presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial,”
2 later decisions 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.