Cummings v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 1065 · 1980
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Aucutt v. Six Flags Over Mid-America, Inc. (1996), Carmona v. Toledo (2000)
42 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Peary v. Connecticut · Goodman v. Parwatikar
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the movant has established his right to a judgment with such clarity as to leave no room for controversy and that the other party is not entitled to recovery under any discernible circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Dunn
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.