Willis v. Cheek’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Arthur Young & Co. v. Sutherland (1993), Knight v. Furlow (1989)
2 district · 33 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a motion for summary judgment is made and supported as provided in this Rule, an adverse party may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of his pleadings, but his response, by affidavits or otherwise provided in this Rule, must set forth specific facts showing there is a genuine issue for trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hobson“only when there are no material facts in issue and when it is clear that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party moving for summary judgment has the burden of proving that there is no issue of material fact . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nec v. Nmcg
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.