Kyle v. Morton High School’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.3d 448 · 1998
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Concentra Health Services, Inc. (2007), Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Connick v. Myers · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or fair notice to be given, a complaint must at least include the operative facts upon which a plaintiff bases his claim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]efore Leatherman, on occasion we would apply a more stringent standard for notice pleading in civil rights cases; we no longer do so. We judge [a plaintiff's] complaint by the same standards we would apply in a non-civil rights case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In reviewing a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, we will allow a plaintiff to make additional factual allegations for the first time on appeal, but we will not entertain new issues.”
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.