Western Chance #2, Inc. v. KFC Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 1538 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2012
14 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Erie Co v. Tompkins · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is proper if there are no questions of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court has discretion to refuse the filing of untimely affidavits.”
1 later decision 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.