Gaines v. Stenseng’s Empirical Analysis
292 F.3d 1222 · 2002
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Fogle v. Pierson (2006), Kay v. Bemis (2007)
13 federal appellate · 6 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Graham v. Connor · Sandin v. Conner · Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections · Cummings v. Evans
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal of a pro se complaint for failure to state a claim is proper only where it is obvious that the plaintiff cannot prevail on the facts he has alleged and it would be futile to give him an opportunity to amend. In determining whether a dismissal is proper, we must accept the allegations of the complaint as true and construe those allegations, and any rea- ■ sonable inferences that might be drawn from them, in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
4 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.