Marvel Characters, Inc. v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.3d 280 · 2002
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 241 F. Supp. 2d 281 - In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation (2003), Nassau County Strip Search Cases v. P S 1-200 (2006)
37 federal appellate · 20 district ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Allen v. McCurry · Montana v. United States
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f there is any evidence in the record that could reasonably support a jury's verdict for the non-moving party,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the identical issue necessarily was decided in the prior action and is decisive of the present action, and (2) the party to be precluded from relitigating the issue had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o determine whether two actions arise from the same transaction or claim, [the Court] look[s] to whether the underlying facts are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they form a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties’ expectations ...”
4 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.