Samuels v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 1346 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably In re Vitreous Steel Products Co. (1990), Rohrbough v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. (1990)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Publishers Resource, Inc. v. Walker-Davis Publications, Inc. · Donald v. Polk County · Levine v. Shell Oil Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]erely alleging a factual dispute cannot defeat [a] summary judgment motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Owner [plaintiff] agrees to indemnify the Nominee, his successors, and assigns, and to hold Nominee harmless from all liability, loss, expenses, damages, costs and attorney’s fees that Nominee may at any time incur by reason of any type of inquiry, action or suit which may be brought against him or made of him by any person, firm, corporation, or governmental agency or authority or anyone else by reason of the nominee-ship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stratmore v. Combs“no need exists to resort to other means of interpretation, and the effect must be given to the parties' intent as indicated in the language itself.”
1 later decision 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.