Pope v. Schroeder’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2010
12 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 J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · 457 So. 2d 941 - Dennis v. Searle · Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · 458 So. 2d 714 - Dethlefs v. Beau Maison Development Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ummary judgment should not be used to snuff out a litigant's right to a trial unless it is appropriate under the rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he adverse party prior to the day of the hearing may serve opposing affidavits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.