Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company v. The Assiniboine And Sioux Tribes Of The Fort Peck Reservation’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.3d 767 · 2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Leon v. IDX Systems Corp. (2006), Morton v. Hall (2010)
7 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Doerr v. Doerr · Montana v. United States · Martin v. Delaware
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a summary judgment motion is filed so early in the litigation, before a party has had any realistic opportunity to pursue discovery relating to its theory of the case, district courts should grant any Rule [56(d) ] motion fairly freely”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be expected to frame its motion with great specificity as to the kind of discovery likely to turn up useful information, as the ground for such specificity has not yet been laid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Identity of claims exists when two suits arise from the same transactional nucleus of facts.”
1 later decision 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.