Zappa v. Fahey’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably O'MALLEY v. Ulland Bros. (1996), Michaelson v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (1991)
65 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 Krengel v. Midwest Automatic Photo, Inc. · Miller v. Market Men's Mutual Insurance · Automotive Merchandise, Inc. v. Smith · MacIoch v. Wagner
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that either party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.