Middleton v. Reynolds Metals Co.’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 881 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Mickey Gregory, As Administrator of the Estate of Gerald Gregory,/cross v. Shelby County, Tennessee (2000), Noble Payne v. Chrysler Motors Corporation Jeep Division (1994)
20 federal appellate · 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 · Street v. Jc Bradford & Company · Canderm Pharmacal, Ltd. v. Elder Pharmaceuticals, 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury could find that in erecting the thin steel cable over a ditch at a height of 18 inches without identifying markers, the defendant in the instant case acted wantonly or recklessly”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.