Bock v. Gold’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Murray v. City of Burlington (2012), Mahoney v. Tara, LLC (2014)
39 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Conley v. Gibson · Kentucky v. Graham · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Hafer v. Melo
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is beyond doubt that there exist no facts or circumstances that would entitle [the plaintiff] to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]otions to dismiss for failure to state a claim are disfavored and should be rarely granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.