Brooks v. Tri-Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.3d 1109 · 2005
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Jenkins v. Winter (2008), Phillips v. Jasper County Jail (2006)
9 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Firemen's Fund Insurance v. Thien · Pink Supply Corp. v. Hiebert, Inc. · Reed v. Thalacker
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.
“When an affidavit contains an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the statement that is inadmissible hearsay, the statement may not be used to support or defeat a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.