107 F.3d -1125 - Flenner v. Sheahan’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.3d 459 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2017
9 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Rakovich v. Wade
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no facts sufficient to support [her] claim for relief, and the facts in the complaint are viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The possibility that the allegation is false-- even that attachments to the complaint demonstrate its falsity--does not mean that the complaint fails to state a claim. Instead the attachments authorize the district court to grant judgment on the pleadings under Rule 12(c), or to convert the motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment and to grant that relief (a possibility raised by Rule 12(b) itself).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as of 1993, the law was clear that the permissibility of dismissing an employee for patronage reasons was determined by reference to the inherent powers of the particular office, not to the title of that office.”
1 later decision 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.