State v. Midkiff’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably City and County of Honolulu v. Bennett (1976), State v. Magoon (1993)
26 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 United States v. International Building Co. · United States v. California · State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee · United States v. Fullard-Leo · United States v. Chaves
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] summary judgment is analogous to a directed verdict [at trial]. The theory underlying a motion for summary judgment is substantially the same as that underlying a motion for a directed verdict. In both instances the movant is asserting that there is no genuine issue of material fact to be resolved by the factfinder and that [the movant] is entitled to judgment on the merits as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Applicable here is the statement in 6 Moore, Federal Practice, § 56.15(3), at 2343-44 (2d ed.), that an opposing party who cannot show that countervailing evidence will be available at the trial, is not entitled to denial of the motion for summary judgment ‘on the basis of a hope that such evidence will develop at trial.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The “lost grant” doctrine, while adopted in the Kioloku case, supra, represents a fiction which this court is reluctant to apply here. It is a doctrine that perhaps requires re-examination.”
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.