Isbell v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 149th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner · Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. · Science Spectrum, Inc. v. Martinez
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.
“After adequate time for discovery, a party without presenting summary judgment evidence may move for summary judgment on the ground that there is no evidence of one or more essential elements of a claim or defense on which an adverse party would have the burden of proof at trial. The court must grant the motion unless the respondent produces summary judgment evidence raising a genuine issue of material fact.”
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.