Missouri Pacific Railroad v. National Milling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 882 · 1969
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Car Transportation Brokerage Company v. Darden Restaurants Inc (2000), Ef Operating Corporation T/a Pa v. American Buildings (1993)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Levinson v. Spector Motor Service · Boston & Maine Railroad v. Hooker · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Fink · Fountain v. Filson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Care should, of course, be taken by the district court to determine that the party against whom summary judgment is rendered has had a full and fair opportunity to meet the proposition that there is no genuine issue of material fact to be tried, and that the party for whom summary judgment is rendered is entitled thereto as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question for judgment determination is whether on the undenied facts alleged in the complaint[, counterclaim, or cross-claim] and assuming as true all the material allegations of fact in the answer, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.