Beal v. Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 287 · 1972
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance (1975), Robert C. Hahn v. Francis W. Sargent (1975)
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Carter v. Stanton · Arnstein v. Porter
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the movant comes forward with facts showing that his adversary’s case is baseless, the opponent cannot rest on the allegations of the complaint but must adduce factual material which raises a substantial question of the veracity or completeness of the movant’s showing or presents countervailing facts.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . in determining whether there has been equality of effort, federal courts must not hold municipalities to standards of precision that are unattainable in the process of government.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule of Arnstein v. Porter, 154 F.2d 464, 468 (2 Cir.1946), that summary judgment may not be rendered when there is the `slightest doubt' as to the facts no longer is good law.”
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.