U.S. Express Lines, Ltd. v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.3d 383 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 40 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Buck v. Hampton Township School District (2006), Board of Trustees of Teamsters Local 863 Pension Fund v. Foodtown, Inc. (2002)
10 federal appellate · 40 district · 3 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Chambers v. Nasco, 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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'integral to or explicitly relied upon in the complaint.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When considering a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, courts accept as true the allegations in the complaint and its attachments, as well as reasonable inferences construed in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs.”). . In the proposed third amended complaint, plaintiffs alleged the conspiracy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“raises a federal question sufficient to support removal of the malicious abuse of process claim from the state court to the federal forum.”
2 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.