Walker v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 355 · 1988
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Robert C. Byers, Jr. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc. (2000), Fraire v. City of Arlington (1992)
178 federal appellate · 12 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Conley v. Gibson · Gulbenkian v. Penn · Reid v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, 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.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the same standards which guided the district court.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Texas law does not recognize an implied warranty that services incidental to helicopter maintenance will be performed in a good and workmanlike manner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nghiem v. Sajib
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.