Pfeil v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 850 · 1985
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998), Franco v. Kelly (1988)
72 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · Egger v. Phillips · Munson v. Friske
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not an abuse of discretion for the trial court to refuse to grant a continuance to obtain such information.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ffidavits are admissible in summary judgment proceedings if they are made under penalties of perjury; only unsworn documents purporting to be affidavits may be rejected.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in writing of such person which is subscribed by him, as true under penalty of perjury, and dated....”
4 later decisions 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.