Medlin v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 1085 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp. (1991), Permian Petroleum Company v. Petroleos Mexicanos Permian Petroleum Company (1991)
8 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We thus are unable to disagree with the [trial] court's conclusion that the terms of the [ban] are not so indefinite that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Condemned to the use of words, we can never expect mathematical certainty from our language. The words of the [ban] are marked by "flexibility and reasonable breadth, rather than meticulous specificity,”
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.