Carroll v. Morrison Hotel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 404 · 1945
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Langadinos v. American Airlines, Inc. (2000), Frederick Hart & Co. v. Recordgraph Corp. (1948)
40 federal appellate · 9 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 Continental Collieries, Inc. v. Shober · Leimer v. State Mut. Life Assur. Co. · Gallup v. Caldwell · Erk v. Glenn L. Martin Co. · Galbreath v. Metropolitan Trust Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“; consequently to refuse to give credence to them on defendants' motion to dismiss would be opposed to the spirit of the Rules. Furthermore, Rule 11 provides that the signature of an attorney to the pleading is a certificate that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . the weight of authority generally in the federal courts . . . (and the Eighth Circuit . . .) . . . and the better reasoning conspire in the denial to a defendant of the right to impeach, by affidavits in support of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a valid claim, the essential allegations of a complaint and thereby in effect, to force the plaintiff into a summary trial . . . upon matters of fact explicitly averred in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b] HOW PRESENTED. Every defense, in law or fact, to a claim for relief in any pleading, whether a claim, counter-claim, cross-claim or third party claim, shall be asserted in the responsive pleading thereto if one is required, except that the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: * * * tfc * * (6) Failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted,....”
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.