Gordon v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 1109 · 1999
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Pace v. City of Des Moines (2000), David Hanten v. The School District of Riverview Gardens (1999)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Withrow v. Larkin · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Mallen
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e accept the complaint's factual allegations as true and construe them in a light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To set forth a procedural due process violation, a plaintiff, first, must establish that his protected liberty or. property interest is at stake.”
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.