Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 620 · 1944
Citation profile
933 federal appellate · 158 district · 433 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,533 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986), Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation (1986)
933 federal appellate · 158 district · 433 state decisions — followed in 34 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Conqueror · Quock Ting v. United States · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford v. Ward · Dayton Power & Light Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Cited together with Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc.
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 2,533 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to cut litigants off from their right of trial by jury if they really have issues to try.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and . . . the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But at least a summary disposition of issues of damage should be on evidence which a jury would not be at liberty to disbelieve and which would require a directed verdict for the moving party.”
10 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.