Spear v. Dayton's’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 554 · 1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Ratner v. Young · 127 F. Supp. 252 - Yong Hong Keung ex rel. Yong Lim v. Dulles
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen [defendant’s] motion for summary judgment was filed, there was already in the record the equivalent of an affidavit by plaintiff_ We do not believe that a litigant, especially one unrepresented by counsel, as was [plaintiff], is under a duty to repeat his verified allegation in a new affidavit. Such a requirement would simply multiply the filing of paper for no good purpose. This is not, in other words, a case of a plaintiff who simply rested on the unverified allegations of his pleadings. Plaintiff’s sworn statement ... was already before the Court and, in our view, precluded the grant of summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under a duty to repeat this verified allegation in a new affidavit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Doss
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.