Vidrine v. Enger’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 107 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. (1990), Rodriguez v. City of New York (1995)
11 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 Barker v. Norman · Fowler Butane Gas Co. v. Varner · United States v. An Article of Drug Consisting of 4,680 Pails · Wilder v. St. Joseph Hospital · Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Hardie
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiff] presented no affidavit or deposition from Dr. Rein.... His quotation of Dr. Rein is pure hearsay. We have repeatedly held that, while notice pleading is sufficient to open the federal courthouse door, a party opposing a motion for summary judgment, properly put, may not ask the court to try the case in order to determine the facts....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll actions for which no other period of limitation is prescribed shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lindley v. Hamilton“must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 89-2910
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.