Estes v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2012
1 district · 5 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 Fahringer v. Strine Estate · Lidstone v. Green · Brickley v. Leonard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhere the plaintiff will have the burden of proof on an essential issue at trial, the defendant may successfully move for a summary judgment when it is clear that he would be entitled to a directed verdict at trial if the plaintiff presented nothing more than was before the court at the hearing on the motion. Plaintiff has the opportunity to adduce evidence by deposition, affidavit, and the like, which will justify submission of his claim to a jury. He cannot hold back his evidence until the time of trial and escape summary judgment by the mere assertion that he will or may then produce further evidence. Here is no battle of affidavits and no weighing of credibility, which would of course be improper in a summary judgment motion. The plaintiffs claim fails simply for lack of proof.”
1 later decision 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.