Rl v. Ct’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 382 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Stripling, Scanlan
1 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 Conley v. Gibson · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Glanzer v. . Shepard · Branch v. Tunnell · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, 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 382 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[d]ocuments that a defendant attaches to a motion to dismiss are considered part of the pleadings if they are referred to in the plaintiff's complaint and are central to [the plaintiff's] claims.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must limit itself to the contents of the pleadings, including attachments thereto.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not dismiss a complaint under [R]ule 12(b)(6) '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.'”
4 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.