McCoy v. Quadrangle Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Wallace v. Warehouse Employees Union No. 730 (1984), District of Columbia v. Freeman (1984)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 41 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
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · The Washington Post Company v. Eugene J. Keogh · Frank Munsey v. Wesley Webb T
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly if there were absolutely no facts or circumstances from which a jury could reasonably have found that [the defendant was] negligent and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the injury, would the question have been one for the court,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is properly granted only when the pleadings and other materials on file demonstrate that no genuine issue of material fact remains for trial and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cassidy v. Owen
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.