Post v. Wr Harper’s Empirical Analysis
980 F.2d 491 · 1992
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Winegar v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1994), Mercer v. City of Cedar Rapids (2002)
15 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 · Morrissey v. Brewer · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Armstrong v. Manzo · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”
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.