Pachla v. Saunders System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 496 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Perkins (1993), Brown v. Glover (2000)
19 federal appellate · 4 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 · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Pinney Dock & Transport Co. v. Penn Central Corp.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a mere subjective expectancy on the part of an employee ... [does] not create a legitimate [Toussaint ] claim.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere existence of a scintilla of evidence”
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.