Gurliacci v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 1,999 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,022 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Dodd v. Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. (1997), Barrett v. Danbury Hospital (1995)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 1,999 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Connell v. Colwell · Eichel v. New York Central Railroad · Fuentes v. Shevin · Hopson v. St. Mary's Hospital · LeConche v. Elligers
Cited together with Upson v. State · Barde v. Board of Trustees · Sadloski v. Town of Manchester · Zizka v. Water Pollution Control Authority · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Peabody, N.E., Inc.
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 2,022 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss . . . properly attacks the jurisdiction of the court, essentially asserting that the plaintiff cannot as a matter of law and fact state a cause of action that should be heard by the court.”
570 later decisions quote this exact passage“Subject matter jurisdiction is the power of the court to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the proceedings in question belong.”
98 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that once the issue of subject matter jurisdiction is raised, it must be immediately acted upon by the court.”
50 later decisions 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.