Aamot v. Kassel’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 441 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2022
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Wales ex rel. Wales Trucking Co. v. United States · Sikes v. Bancboston Mortgage Corp. · Harvey Aluminum, Inc. v. American Cyanamid Co. · Manze 86-1341 v. State Farm Insurance Company Manze
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ermitting a defendant, merely by appending to this Rule 12(b)(6) motion material 'outside the pleadings,' regardless of their scope, content or form, to abuse a plaintiff's right to voluntarily dismiss his action without prejudice, not only circumvents the plain language of the rule, but flies in the face of the 'time and effort rationale.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conversion takes place at the discretion of the court, and at the time the court affirmatively decides not to exclude extraneous matters.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“preclude future prejudice to its interests”
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.