Simon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 740 · 1983
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Coral Petroleum, Inc. v. Banque Paribas-London (1986), Williamson v. United States Department of Agriculture (1987)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Trevino v. Celanese Corp. · Northwest Power Products, Inc. v. Omark Industries, Inc. · Simon v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]n summary judgment the inferences to be drawn from the underlying facts contained in such materials [such as affidavits, depositions, and exhibits] must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the damages alleged by the complaint are solely those resulting from Simon's allegedly wrongful arrest, search, and imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrates the absence of any genuine issue of material fact.”
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.