Reed v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2008
9 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 237 So. 2d 311 - Geer v. Bennett · 237 So. 2d 21 - Tiseo v. Arnold
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a motion to dismiss a complaint rests on facts outside the scope of the allegations contained in the complaint, the trial court commits reversible error in dismissing the complaint based on those extraneous matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] court may not properly go beyond the four corners of the complaint in testing the legal sufficiency of the allegations set forth therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.