Kane Enterprises v. MacGregor (USA) Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.3d 371 · 2003
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Manning v. Chevron Chemical Co., LLC (2003), In Re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & ERISA (2003)
20 federal appellate · 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 Conley v. Gibson · Department of the Army v. Blue Fox, Inc. · Ramming v. United States · Rhett G. Campbell, Trustee, Joseph C. Canizaro, Intervenor-Appellant v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff must plead specific facts, not mere conclusional allegations, to avoid dismissal for failure to state a claim. We will thus not accept as true conclusory allegations or unwarranted deductions of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he court may review the documents attached to the motion to dismiss ... where the complaint refers to the documents and they are central to the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusory allegations or unwarranted deductions of fact”
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.