Phelps v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 93 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence presents a sufficient disagreement to require submission to a jury or whether it is so one-sided that one party must prevail as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires a determination of whether the party bearing the burden of proof [at trial] has presented a jury question as to each element of its case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the dispute must concern evidence upon which 'a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.'”
2 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.