Rogers v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 140 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 135 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Amsden v. Moran (1990), Febus-Rodriguez v. Betancourt-Lebron (1994)
14 federal appellate · 135 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Brennan v. Hendrigan
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 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.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To succeed [in a motion for summary judgment], the moving party must show that there is an absence of evidence to support the nonmoving party's position.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact, and [where] the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
4 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.