United States v. Diebold, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2,081 federal appellate · 1,765 district · 309 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15,311 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation (1986), Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970)
2,081 federal appellate · 1,765 district · 309 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Drews v. Maryland · International Shoe Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
Cited together with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, 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 15,311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
150 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inferences to be drawn from the [underlying] facts contained in the affidavits, attached exhibits, and depositions submitted below ... must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
5 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.