Jones v. Ml Greninger’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.3d 322 · 1999
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 313 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Vanderbrook v. Unitrin Preferred Insurance (2007), Great Plains Trust Company v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co (2002)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Bounds v. Smith · Johnson v. Avery · Vrettos v. Plainfield Post Office
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 313 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all well-pleaded facts as true, viewing them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, the court should not dismiss [a] claim unless the plaintiff would not be entitled to relief under any set of facts or any possible theory that [it] could prove consistent with the allegations in the complaint.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
3 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.