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267 F.3d 30 · 2001
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 218 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc. (2002), Sanchez v. Pereira-Castillo (2009)
27 federal appellate · 218 district · 9 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 Watterson v. Page · Beddall v. State Street Bank & Trust Co. · The Clorox Company Puerto Rico the Proctor Gamble Commercial Company · Portland Valve, Inc. v. Rockwood Systems Corp.
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court may not consider any documents that are outside of the complaint, or not expressly incorporated therein, unless the motion is converted into one for summary judgment.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every defense, in law or fact, to a claim for relief in any pleading ... shall be asserted in the responsive pleading thereto if one is required, except that the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: ... (6) failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder First Circuit precedent, when `a complaint's factual allegations are expressly linked to — and admittedly dependent upon — a document (the authenticity of which is not challenged),' then the court can review it upon a motion to dismiss.”
6 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.