Fountain v. Filson’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 681 · 1949
Citation profile
249 federal appellate · 7 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 454 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962), Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul (1963)
249 federal appellate · 7 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedFilson v. Fountain (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Globe Liquor Co. v. San Roman · Stemmer v. New York · Filson v. Fountain
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 454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disput(ing) facts material to that claim.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, summary dismissal of the complaint was governed by Rule 56 and compliance with that rule was required. 9 Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides for summary judgment in behalf of either party upon service of motion in case the pleadings, depositions and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. 10 Summary judgment in any case should be cautiously invoked to the end that the parties may be afforded a trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowdidge v. Lehman
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.