Taylor v. List’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 1040 · 1989
Citation profile
315 federal appellate · 160 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 867 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Starr v. Baca (2011), Arpin v. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency (2001)
315 federal appellate · 160 district · 12 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 · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Faretta v. California · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Bounds v. Smith
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 867 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“participated in or directed the violations, or knew of the violations and failed to act to prevent them.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A summary judgment motion cannot be defeated by relying solely on conclusory allegations unsupported by factual data.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A grant of summary judgment is reviewed de novo to determine, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, whether there exist any genuine issue of material fact and whether the district court correctly applied the relevant substantive law.”
5 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.