Paulemon v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 307 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Gant v. Wallingford Board of Education (1995), Siefken v. Village of Arlington Heights (1995)
10 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1692A (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · First Nationwide Bank v. Gelt Funding Corp. · Allen · Branum v. Clark · Hernandez v. Coughlin
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough a court considering a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is limited to the facts stated in the complaint, the complaint includes any written instrument attached to it as an exhibit and any statements or documents incorporated into it by reference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot fairly be considered litigation activity”
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.