Fegans v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably City of Fayetteville v. Romine (2008), Smith v. BRT (2005)
8 federal appellate · 44 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pitcock v. State · Bushong v. Garman Co. · Grine v. Board of Trustees · Nielsen v. Berger-Nielsen
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]alice is not necessarily personal hate; it is, rather, an intent and disposition to do a wrongful act greatly injurious to another.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Summary judgment is appropriate when there are no genuine issues of material fact, and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Once the moving party has established a prima facie entitlement to summary judgment, the opposing party must meet proof with proof and demonstrate the existence of a material issue of fact. On appellate review, this court determines if summary judgment was appropriate based on whether the evidentiary items presented by the moving party in support of the motion leave a material fact unanswered. This court views the evidence in a fight most favorable to the party against whom the motion was filed, resolving all doubts and inferences against the moving party. Our review focuses not only on the pleadings, but also on the affidavits and other documents filed by the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Turner · Hanks v. Sneed“We review a trial court’s decision on a motion to dismiss by treating the facts alleged in the complaint as true and by viewing them in the fight most favorable to the plaintiff. In viewing the facts in the fight most favorable to the plaintiff, the facts should be liberally construed in plaintiff s favor. Our rules require fact pleading, and a complaint must state facts, not mere conclusions, in order to entitle the pleader to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanks v. Sneed
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.