Thomas v. Othman’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on O'Brien v. University Community Tenants Union, Inc. · Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co. · Cunningham v. Brown · State Ex Rel. Hanson v. Guernsey County Board of Commissioners · Scholes v. Lehmann
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 17 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 an actionable claim unless it appears beyond doubt from the complaint that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts entitling him to recovery.”
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.