Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 838 · 1985
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Allen v. Tyson Foods, Inc. (1997), Miranda v. B & B Cash Grocery Store, Inc. (1992)
51 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Needham v. White Laboratories, Inc. · Environmental Defense Fund v. Marsh · Clemons v. Dougherty County · Impossible Electronics Techniques, Inc. v. Wackenhut Protective Systems, Inc.
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If reasonable minds could differ on the inferences arising from undisputed facts, then a court should deny summary judgment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When we examine a decision granting or denying summary judgment, we apply the same legal standards that control the district court's determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sammons v. Taylor · Twiss v. Kury
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.