Blackston’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 88 F. Supp. 2d 1355 - Kaplan v. Assetcare, Inc. (2000), 177 Cal. App. 4th 1049 - Tichinin v. City of Morgan Hill (2009)
2 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 Hishon v. King & Spalding · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. · Weinstein v. Bradford · Young v. American Mini Theatres, 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only if it is clear that no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be proved consistent with the allegations.’”
1 later decision 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.