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579 F.2d 1004 · 1978

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
5
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

37 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Petrey v. Simon (1983), A. Carl Helwig, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated (2001)

37 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

38019781980199020002010decided

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 St. Regis Paper Co. v. Royal Industries · Adams v. Campbell County School District · Choudhry v. Jenkins · Bowdidge v. Lehman

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Noncompliance with the time provision of the rule deprives the court of authority to grant summary judgment, unless the opposing party has waived this requirement, or there has been no prejudice to the opposing party by the court's failure to comply with this provision of the rule.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Beck v. Borden, Inc. · A. Carl Helwig, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated
  2. “[t]he motion [for summary judgment] shall be served at least 10 days before the time fixed for the hearing.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Delta Gas Corp. v. Pack · Delta Gas Corporation, C. Lester Paul and Margaret S. Paul v. Grover Thompson and Violet Thompson
  3. “afford the party against whom summary judgment will be entered advance notice as required by Rule 56 and an adequate opportunity to show why summary judgment should not be granted.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Delta Gas Corp. v. Pack · Delta Gas Corporation, C. Lester Paul and Margaret S. Paul v. Grover Thompson and Violet Thompson

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.