Jones v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 1165 · 1973
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 26 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Sanabria v. United States (1978), Conaway v. Smith (1988)
24 federal appellate · 26 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Vietti v. Wayne · Slater v. Peyser
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A)ny relief contemplated by Rule 56, F.R.Civ.P. is drastic and should be applied with caution to the end that litigants will have trial on bona fide factual disputes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and . . . the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no margin exists for the disposition of factual issues.”
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.