Johnson v. Enron Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 1234 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 288 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver of the State Bank of Greenwald, Minnesota v. Douglas A. Winter Bernadine Winter Robert J. Osendorf (1992), Fenney v. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (2003)
31 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co
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 288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 56. Summary Judgment (b) For Defending Party. A party against whom a claim ... is asserted ... may, at any time, move for summary judgment in the party’s favor as to all or any part thereof. (c) Motions and Proceedings Thereon.... The judgment sought shall be rendered forthwith if the 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 judgment as a matter of law.”
86 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must establish significant probative evidence to prevent summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]t the summary judgment stage the judge’s function is not himself to weigh the evidence and determine the truth of the matter but to determine whether there is a genuine issue for trial.... [TJhere is no issue for trial unless there is sufficient evidence favoring the nonmoving party for a jury to return a verdict for that party. If the evidence is merely colorable, or is not significantly probative, summary judgment may be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soo v. Maumelle Co.
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.