Ledford v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2020
21 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 141 Ga. App. 21 - Guthrie v. Monumental Properties, Inc. · 146 Ga. App. 656 - Hardy v. Gordon · Holloway v. Dougherty County School System · 147 Ga. App. 678 - Jaynes v. Douglas · Atlanta Associates v. Westminster Properties, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Civil Practice Act a motion to dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted should not be granted unless averments in the complaint disclose with certainty that plaintiffs would not be entitled to relief under any state of facts that could be proven in support of the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under this 'notice' theory of pleading, it is immaterial whether a pleading states 'conclusions' or 'facts'.... There are no prohibitions in the rules against pleading conclusions and, if pleaded, they may be considered in determining whether a complaint sufficiently states a claim for relief. It is immaterial whether an allegation is one of fact or conclusion if the complaint effectively states a claim for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fair notice and states the elements of the claim plainly and succinctly.”
1 later decision 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.