Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Omaha Public Power District Nebraska Public Power District Burlington Northern Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1228 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2016
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · 110 Wis. 2d 530 - Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Public Service Commission · Morrissey v. Curran · Grein v. BD. OF EDUC. OF SCH. DIST. OF FREMONT
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is within the court’s power to grant summary judgment sua sponte against the moving party, lacking a cross motion, where the party against whom the judgment is entered has had a full and fair opportunity to contest that there are no genuine issues of material fact to be tried and the party granted judgment is entitled to it as a matter of law.”
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.