Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2021
11 district · 2 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Salerno · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech · Coates v. City of Cincinnati
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accept as true the well-pleaded factual allegations of the complaint, draw all reasonable inferences therefrom in the plaintiff's favor, and determine whether the complaint, so read, sets forth facts sufficient to justify recovery on any cognizable theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“been intentionally treated differently from others - 14 - similarly situated and that there is no rational basis for the difference in treatment.”
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.