Edwards v. Heidelbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Eugene Alper Construction Co. v. Joe Garavelli's of West Port, Inc. (1983), Black Leaf Products Co. v. Chemsico, Inc. (1984)
1 federal appellate · 61 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 Ahtanum Irrigation District v. United States · Kroh Bros. Development Co. v. State Line Eighty-Nine, Inc. · Maddock v. Lewis · Pagan v. City of Kennett · Centennial State Bank v. SEK Construction Co., Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In ruling on a motion for summary judgment, the trial court and the appellate court must scrutinize the record in the light most favorable to the parties against whom the motion was filed and the judgment was rendered, and to accord to such parties the benefit of every doubt. (Citations omitted.) A summary judgment may only be rendered where it is made manifest by the pleadings, deposition [sic] and admissions on file, together with any affidavits, that there is no genuine issue of material fact. (Citations omitted.)””
2 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.