Hamm’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
36 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 966 F. Supp. 1525 - In Re Gen. Motors Corp. Anti-Lock Brake Products Liability Lit. (1997), 78 F. Supp. 2d 976 - In Re BankAmerica Corp. Securities Litigation (1999)
36 district ·
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 · Bounds v. Smith · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim that would entitle him to relief.”
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.