Cooper v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 368 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Gustovich v. AT & T Communications, Inc. (1992), 35 Cal. App. 4th 733 - Villa v. McFerren (1995)
30 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Wolff v. McDonnell · Ponte v. Real · Paulussen v. Herion · Egger v. Phillips
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have long refused to consider arguments that were not presented to the district court in response to summary judgment motions.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“summary judgment must be entered 'against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial.”
4 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.