Gordon v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 120 · 1980
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Hall v. Bellmon (1991), United States v. Four Parcels of Real Property in Greene & Tuscaloosa Counties (1991)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Fowler v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Jones v. Menard · Rufus F. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Summary judgment is an excellent device by which [trial] courts may make expedited dispositions of those cases in which a trial would be fruitless. When summary judgment is inappropriate because the supporting or opposing materials are improper, the [trial] court has ample discretion to call upon the parties to remedy the defects by submitting supplemental affidavits or otherwise."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affidavits shall be made on personal knowledge, shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence, and shall show affirmatively that the affiant is competent to testify to the matters stated therein....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] verified pleading may itself be treated as an affidavit in support of a motion for summary judgment, but only if it satisfies the standards for affidavits set out in Rule 56[ (c)(4)].”). . Although Bentley purportedly seeks summary judgment on its”
2 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.