McCall v. Pataki’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.3d 321 · 2000
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Roth v. Jennings (2007), Thyroff v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (2006)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a complaint is sufficient to state a claim on which relief can be granted, the plaintiff's failure to respond to a Rule 12(b)(6) motion does not warrant dismissal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]though a party is of course to be given a reasonable opportunity to respond to an opponent's motion, the sufficiency of a complaint is a matter of law that the court is capable of determining based on its own reading of the pleading and knowledge of the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Harris · Colon v. Annucci“In deciding an unopposed motion to dismiss, a court is to 'assume the truth of a pleading's factual allegations and test only its legal sufficiency.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Opperisano v. Jones
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.