Nancy Sweet v. Robert Sheahan’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.3d 80 · 2000
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc. (2002), Lisa L. Fitzgerald v. William Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service (2001)
23 federal appellate · 14 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Batterton v. Francis · Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal is inappropriate unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts which would entitle him or her to relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court must take all facts alleged in the complaint as true and draw all reasonable inferences in favor of plaintiff,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“create new law, rights, or duties, in what amounts to a legislative act.”
3 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.