Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Kathy Dyer v. City of Mesquite Texas (2020), 108 F. Supp. 2d 681 - Littlefield v. Forney Independent School District (2000)
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Gregg v. Georgia
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, [on a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss], matters outside the pleading are presented to and not excluded by the court, the motion shall be treated as one for summary judgment and disposed of as provided in Rule 56.) (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blakely“[W]here a district court grants a motion styled as a motion to dismiss but bases its ruling on facts developed outside the pleadings, we review the order as an order granting summary judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blakely“[E]ach defendant's subjective deliberate indifference, vel non, must be examined separately.”
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.