Davis v. Leitner’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Patel v. OMH Medical Center, Inc. (1999), Manley v. Brown (1999)
83 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 Buckner v. General Motors Corp. · Ross Ex Rel. Ross v. City of Shawnee · Weeks Ex Rel. Weeks v. Wedgewood Village, Inc. · Continental Supply Co. v. Marshall · Loper v. Austin
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the pleadings, affidavits, depositions, admissions or other evidentiary materials establish 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.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reasonable probability, something beyond a mere contention, that [it] will be able to produce competent, admissible evidence at the time of trial which might reasonably persuade the trier of fact in [its] favor on the issue in dispute.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“present something which shows that when the date of trial arrives, he will have some proof to support his allegations.”
6 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.