Twist v. Meese’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 1421 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 69 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Burke v. Gould (2002), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Bender (1997)
13 federal appellate · 69 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 291 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court judge should not be obligated to sift through hundreds of pages of depositions, affidavits, and interrogatories in order to make his own analysis and determination of what may, or may not, be a genuine issue of material disputed fact.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a separate concise statement of genuine issues setting forth all material facts as to which it is contended there exists a genuine issue necessary to be litigated,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e leave such decisions wholly to the discretion of the district court where they should properly rest.”
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.