Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 46 · 1990
Citation profile
297 federal appellate · 640 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,102 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mesnick v. General Electric Co. (1991), Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company (1990)
297 federal appellate · 640 district · 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co.
Cited together with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mesnick v. General Electric Co. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company
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 1,102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Summary judgment] shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.””
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to pierce the pleadings and to assess the proof in order to see whether there is a genuine need for trial.”
18 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.