Empire Electronics Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
311 F.2d 175 · 1962
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Charbonnages De France v. Smith (1979), Rg Group Inc Rg v. Horn & Hardart Company (1984)
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Henry Heide, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Toebelman v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · Ramsouer v. Midland Valley R. · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot try issues of fact but can only determine whether there are issues of fact to be tried.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No 364 · Lewis v. Nadaline“`a judge may not, on a motion for summary judgment, draw fact inferences.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If undisputed evidentiary facts disclose competing material inferences as to which reasonable minds might disagree, the motion must be denied . .. “This admonition should especially be kept in mind when the inferences which the parties seek to have drawn deal with questions of motive, intent, and subjective feelings and reactions.””
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.