Murray III’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
55 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Williams v. Shields (2003), 42 F. Supp. 2d 1192 - Wesley v. Don Stein Buick, Inc. (1999)
55 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conclusory and self-serving affidavits are not sufficient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the existence of a conspiracy[,] (2) intended to deny [him] equal protection under the laws or equal privileges and immunities of the laws[,] (3) resulting in an injury or deprivation of federally-protected rights, and [,](4) an overt act in furtherance of the object of the conspiracy.”
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.