Warren’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cattie v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2007), 482 F. Supp. 2d 1172 - Jing Li v. Chertoff (2007)
1 federal appellate · 25 district ·
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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Lee v. City of Los Angeles · Western Mining Council v. Watt · Charas v. Trans World Airlines, 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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are not required to accept as true conclusory allegations which are contradicted by documents referred to in the complaint, and we do not necessarily assume the truth of legal conclusions merely because they are cast in the form of factual allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept[s] all allegations of fact in the complaint as true and construe[s] them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff[ ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an author who had parted with legal title to the copyright in exchange for percentage royalties based on sales or license fees.” Warren v. Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., 328 F.3d 1136, 1144 (9th Cir.2003) (internal quotation marks omitted). .”
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.