Zmijewski v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2011
19 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 United States v. Hartwell · 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Cordova v. Gosar · Reeves v. Agee · Farr v. Link
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review a summary judgment in the same light as the district court, using the same materials and following the same standards. Summary judgment is proper only when there are no genuine issues of material fact and the prevailing party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to adopt that sense of the words which best harmonizes with the context and promotes in the fullest manner the policy and objects of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. Casey“If the language of a statute communicates a plain meaning to this court, that meaning will be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.