Schuster v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 1369 · 1988
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Degan v. Ford Motor Co. (1989), Meza v. General Battery Corp. (1990)
32 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Reid v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ummary judgment may be affirmed, regardless of the correctness of the district court's rulings, when we find in the record an adequate, independent basis for that result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not apply where the plaintiff voluntarily chooses to pursue a state action first.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a deserving plaintiff has lost the opportunity to bring a meritorious claim because of his failure to negotiate the sometimes treacherous curves of civil procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hogue v. Royse City
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.