Sidebotham v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.2d 816 · 1954
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Cook, Perkiss & Liehe, Inc. v. Northern California Collection Service Inc. (1990)
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Angel v. Bullington
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* ->•- * a complaint should not be dismissed for insufficiency unless it appears to be a certainty that plaintiff is entitled to no relief under any state of facts which could be proved in support of the claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court should grant leave to amend even if no request to amend the pleading was made, unless it determines that the pleading could not possibly be cured by the allegation of other facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“go back to the original pleading in order to determine the nature of the new claim.”
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.