Griggs-Ryan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 112 · 1990
Citation profile
156 federal appellate · 486 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 728 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mesnick v. General Electric Co. (1991), LeBlanc v. Great American Insurance (1993)
156 federal appellate · 486 district · 11 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 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. Giordano · Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc.
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 728 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“view the entire record in the light most hospitable to the party opposing summary judgment, indulging all reasonable inferences in that party's favor.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no genuine issue as to any material fact and . . . the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusory allegations, improbable inferences, and unsupported speculation,”
6 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.