Lohorn v. Michal’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 327 · 1990
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably McCoy v. WGN Continental Broadcasting Co. (1992), Karazanos v. Navistar International Transportation Corp. (1991)
113 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns · Carnegie v. United States
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“view the record and all inferences drawn from it in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for summary judgment is not an appropriate occasion for weighing the evidence; rather, the inquiry is limited to determining if there is a genuine issue for trial.”
9 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.