McDaniel v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 298 · 1993
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995), Taylor v. Principal Financial Group, Inc. (1996)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Linkletter v. Walker
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 84 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Separate trials will usually result in one judgment, but severed claims become entirely independent actions to be tried, and judgment entered thereon, independently. Unfortunately, this distinction, clear enough in theory, is often obscured in practice since at times the courts talk of “separate trial” and “severance” interchangeably.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a secret contract between the plaintiff and one of several defendants whereby the contracting defendant will settle with the plaintiff before trial, but must remain in the suit, and will be reimbursed to some specific degree from the plaintiff's recovery from the other defendants.”
3 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.