No. 03-11736’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 87 F. Supp. 3d 1319 - Alboniga v. School Board of Broward County Florida (2015), Kline v. Tiedemann (In Re Kline) (2010)
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 Elkins v. United States · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania · Pennington v. City of Huntsville · Jaroma v. Massey · Dunlap v. Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he district court cannot base the entry of summary judgment on the mere fact that the motion was unopposed but, rather, must consider the merits of the motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court need not sua sponte review all of the evidentiary materials on file at the time the motion is granted, but must ensure that the motion itself is supported by evidentiary materials. At the least, the district court must review all of the evidentiary materials submitted in support of the motion for summary judgment.”
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.