Adam G. Nunez v. The Superior Oil Company’s Empirical Analysis
572 F.2d 1119 · 1978
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Murphy (1980), Phillips Oil Co. v. OKC Corp. (1987)
96 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If decision is to be reached by the court, and there are no issues of witness credibility, the court may conclude on the basis of the affidavits, depositions, and stipulations before it, that there are no genuine issues of material fact, even though decision may depend on inferences to be drawn from what has been incontrovertibly proved.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhere the evidentiary facts are not disputed, a court in a nonjury case may grant summary judgment if trial would not enhance its ability to draw inferences and conclusions.”). There are no issues involving witness credibility or disputed material facts related to whether the short story is substantially similar to the manuscript. 6 . In Feist, the Supreme Court noted that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no litmus test that infallibly distinguishes those issues that are ‘factual’ from those that are ‘legal’ or ‘mixed.’ ... as we approach the point where facts and the application of legal rule to them blend, appraising evidentia-ry facts in terms of their legal consequences and ‘applying’ law to fact become inseparable processes.”
3 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.