Beale’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 186 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 414 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. (1995), Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
10 federal appellate · 186 district · 21 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 Barwick v. Celotex Corp. · Featherall v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. · 591 F. Supp. 552 - Goodbar v. Whitehead Bros. · Barnes v. Litton Industrial Products, 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 414 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot create a genuine issue of material fact through mere speculation or the building of one inference upon another.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with any affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
2 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.