Snook v. Trust Company of Georgia Bank of Savannah Na U/a’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 865 · 1988
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably International Shortstop, Inc. v. Rally's, Inc. (1991), Leigh v. Warner Brothers, Inc. (2000)
34 federal appellate · 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 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 333
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]enerally summary judgment is inappropriate when the party opposing the motion has been unable to obtain responses to his discovery requests.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides for the entry of summary judgment after adequate time for discovery and upon motion against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the party opposing the motion for summary judgment bears the burden of calling to the district court's attention any outstanding discovery.”
2 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.