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403 F.3d 528 · 2005

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
1
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Hope v. Klabal (2006), Sargent County Water Resource District v. Mathews (2015)

27 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions

330200520102020decided

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 Brown v. Weare · Hossaini v. Western Missouri Medical Center · Bass v. General Motors Corp. · Schuermann Enterprises, Inc. v. St. Louis County

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Summary judgment is warranted if the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, shows that no genuine issue of material fact exists and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Gerald Biby v. Bd. of Regents · General Electric Capital Corporation v. Union Planters Bank Na
  2. “‘particularly relevant,' and must be followed when they are the best evidence of Missouri law.”); United Fire & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Garvey, 328 F.3d 411 , 413 (8th Cir.2003) (noting both that”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 374 F. Supp. 2d 711 - Pro Edge, L.P. v. Gue · Taylor v. ST. LOUIS COUNTY BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS
  3. “We review a grant of summary judgment de novo and apply the same standards as the district court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. General Electric Capital Corporation v. Union Planters Bank Na · Cordry v. Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance, Inc.

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.