Brookins v. Kolb’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 308 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Graff v. City of Chicago (1993)
14 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate only in circumstances where 'the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could [not] return a verdict for the nonmoving party.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Summary judgment is authorized 'if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show 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.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“highlight a problem with the way the prison handled its disciplinary proceedings, or urge a change of any prison policy precluding the use of lie detector tests in disciplinary proceedings against inmates.”
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.