Steinberg v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Rhoads v. McFerran (1975), Gottesman v. General Motors Corp. (1959)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Arnstein v. Porter · Toebelman v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · Empire Southern Gas Co. v. Gray · Hall v. Trans-Lux Daylight Picture Screen Corp. · Associates Discount Corp. v. Crow
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.
“... Whoever has the burden of proof will lose if he fails to sustain it. Here, however, if I should decide that plaintiffs have not sustained the burden of proof, it does not follow that defendants can get summary judgment ... This, I hope, will lay the ghost of an assumption which seems to be common at the bar that once both parties move for summary judgment the court is bound to grant it to one side or the other. The law is otherwise.”
1 later decision 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.