Carver v. Bunch’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 451 · 1991
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Guarino v. Brookfield Township Trustees (1992), Directv, Inc. v. Treesh (2007)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 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 · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & 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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] district court cannot grant summary judgment in favor of a movant simply because the adverse party has not responded. The court is required, at a minimum, to examine the movant's motion for summary judgment to ensure that he has discharged that burden. We see no reason why the situation should be different in the context of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a harsh sanction which the court should order only in extreme situations showing a 'clear record of delay or contumacious conduct by the plaintiff.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that has been used in the Middle District of Georgia constitutes advance screening. Under Rule 56, a party is entitled to make a summary judgment motion, which the district court then may decide. 9 Indeed, a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted may be converted into a summary judgment motion. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b). 24 The opportunity to move for summary judgment is being denied to practitioners in the Middle District of Georgia as a consequence of the local”
3 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.