Stevens v. Barnard’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 876 · 1975
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 16 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Thomas v. International Business Machines (1995), McClelland v. Facteau (1979)
40 federal appellate · 16 district · 10 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 Wingo v. Wedding · Dzenits v. Lynch · Zampos v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. · Waller v. Florida
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carries extraordinary persuasive force on appeal where there are no state decisions on point or none which provide a clear precedent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f an inference can be deduced from the facts whereby the non-movant might recover, summary judgment is inappropriate.”
2 later decisions 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.