Colbert v. Georgetown University’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Cummings v. X-Ray Associates of New Mexico, P. C. (1996), Oparaugo v. Watts (2005)
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 86 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 Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · Catz v. Rubenstein · American States Insurance v. Piasecki
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he movant [] must demonstrate that there is no genuine issue of material fact, and that [the movant] is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the fact of an injury can be readily determined, a claim accrues for purposes of the statute of limitations at the time the injury actually occurs.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the relationship between the fact of injury and the alleged tortious conduct may be obscure,”
5 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.