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Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett

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Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
477 U.S. 317
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
916 of 916
Citing cases (total)
119,435
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett remains good federal law: all 916 flagged citations have been read, and no adverse treatment of its federal rule was confirmed. Alabama rejected language from Celotex when construing its own summary judgment rule, as described below.
Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

119,435 later cases cite Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett; 916 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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