Casso v. Brand’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 345 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 353 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife v. Miranda (2004), Carr v. Brasher (1989)
5 federal appellate · 345 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Calder v. Jones
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 353 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the credibility of the affiant or deponent is likely to be a dispositive factor in the resolution of the case, then summary judgment is inappropriate. On the other hand, if the non-movant must, in all likelihood, come forth with independent evidence to prevail, then summary judgment may well be proper in the absence of such controverting proof.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A summary judgment may be based on uncontroverted testimonial evidence of an interested witness ... if the evidence is clear, positive and direct, otherwise credible and free from contradictions and inconsistencies, and could have been readily controverted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.