McLain v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Panaroni v. Johnson (1969), Cervantes v. Forbis (1964)
52 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 Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Associated Press v. United States · Associated Press v. United States · Whitaker v. Coleman · Engl v. Ætna Life Ins.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the consideration of a motion for summary judgment it is the function of the trial court to determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact for trial. All doubt as to the existence of such an issue must be 'resolved against the moving party; and, unless the court is convinced from a consideration of the pleadings, depositions, admissions on file, and affidavits that such party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law it should be denied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pederson v. Lothman“The reenactment of a statute in substantially the same language in which it was originally phrased constitutes... merely a continuation of the former.”
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.