Ford v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 245 · 1996
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Palmer v. Marion County (2003), Hunt-Golliday v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (1997)
23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Delaware v. Prouse · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Ingraham v. Wright · United States v. Jacobsen
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 56(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that when a motion for summary judgment is made and supported as provided in this rule, an adverse party may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of the.. .party’s pleading.”). Instead, Braun merely filed a brief opposing the defendants’ motion. (Docket # 58). Likewise, he filed an”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Braun v. Terry“By declaring under penalty of perjury that the [response] was true, ... he converted the [response], or rather those factual assertions in the [response] that complied with the requirements for affidavits specified in the rule ... into an affidavit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dale v. Lappin
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.