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Morrison v. Char’s Empirical Analysis

797 F.2d 752 · 1986

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
December 1998
most recently cited

10 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Day & Zimmermann, Inc. v. Challoner · William Radobenko and Mary G. Radobenko, His Wife, Individually and as Husband and Wife v. Automated Equipment Corporation, a California Corporation · Trone v. Smith

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is a well-settled rule that a party opposing a summary judgment motion must inform the trial judge of the reasons, legal or factual, why summary judgment should not be entered. If it does not do so, and loses the motion, it cannot raise such reasons on appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of [his] pleading, but [his] response, by affidavits or as otherwise provided in this rule, must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “calls for exquisite factual determinations in its application”
    1 later decision 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.