Scanlan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Rivera v. Houston Independent School District (2003), Rios II
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Rl v. Ct · Piotrowski v. City of Houston · Leffall v. Dallas Independent School District · Mahone v. Addicks Utility District
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court may consider documents attached to a motion to dismiss that 'are referred to in the plaintiff's complaint and are central to the plaintiff's claim.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n deciding whether to grant a motion to dismiss,” however,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the report alone [was] not central to [the plaintiffs'] claims ... [because] [t]he plaintiffs rel[ied] on substantial, other evidence to support their claims.”
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.