Downes v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 469 · 1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Adler v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1998), Carmen v. San Francisco Unified School District (2001)
18 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Bruce v. Martin-Marietta Corp. · Bushman Construction Co. v. Conner
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the responding party's burden to ensure that the factual dispute is portrayed with particularity, without relying on the trial court's memory of prior proceedings and without depending on the trial court to conduct its own search of the record,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the trial court has discretion to conduct an assiduous review of the record in an effort to weigh the propriety of granting a summary judgment motion, it is not required to consider what the parties fail to point out.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not draw the court's attention to the particular testimony or portions of the record that support her contention.”
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.