Rudolph Sweet, Eddie Rhyne at Al. v. Robert E. Childs, Etc., Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 675 · 1975
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Boazman v. Economics Laboratory, Inc. (1976), McLaughlin v. City of LaGrange (1981)
21 federal appellate ·
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. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(r)ule 56(e) would then have required (the nonmovant) to have done more than simply rely on the contrary allegation in her complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
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.