McSpadden v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 428 · 1972
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Camfield Tires, Inc. v. Michelin Tire Corp. (1983), Pfizer, Inc. v. International Rectifier Corp. (1976)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Walling v. Fairmont Creamery Co. · Sprague v. Vogt · United States v. Dibble · Sanitary Milk Producers v. Bergjans Farm Dairy, Inc.
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.
““Affidavits in support of summary judgment must be made on personal knowledge and contain admissible evidence. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(3); United States v. Dibble, 429 F.2d 598, 602 (9th Cir. 1970); Doza v. American National Insurance Co., 314 F.2d 230, 232 (8th Cir. 1963); Sprague v. Vogt, 150 F.2d 795, 800 (8th Cir. 1945); Walling v. Fairmont Creamery Co., 139 F.2d 318, 322 (8th Cir. 1943); 6 J. Moore, Federal Practice ¶ 56.22 [1] , at 2803 (2d ed. 1971). Where an affidavit does not meet this standard, it is subject to a motion to strike.” The second contention made by Avenal”
3 later decisions 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.