Nader v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.3d 953 · 2008
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Newell v. Runnels (2009), Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor of Baltimore (2013)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]trict compliance with Rule 56[d] affidavits [or declarations] may not be necessary where the circumstances are such that “the nonmoving party, through no fault of its own, has had little or no opportunity to conduct discovery, and when fact-intensive issues, such as intent, are involved,” provided that “the nonmoving party has adequately informed the district court that the motion is pre-mature and that more discovery is necessary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“familiar with the record-keeping practices of a business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such decisions may be quite personal and contentious”
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.