Packish v. McMurtrie’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 23 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Stepanischen v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Corp. (1983), Nestor Colon Medina & Sucesores, Inc. v. Custodio (1992)
24 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of summary judgment is to go behind the pleadings and determine whether any further exploration of the facts is really necessary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]ook[ing] at the record in the light most favorable to, and indulg[ing] all inferences in favor of [Simonson],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile the Selectmen had discretion with regard to indemnification, they could not refuse a claim in retaliation for the exercise of first amendment rights.”
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.