Stone v. Harry’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 912 · 2004
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Topchian v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (2014), Jackson v. Nixon (2014)
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Dunn v. White · Shelton v. ContiGroup Companies, Inc. · Gabel v. Lynaugh
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assume facts that are not alleged, just because an additional factual allegation would have formed a stronger complaint.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“still must allege sufficient facts to support the claims advanced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Noble v. Am. Nat'l Prop. · Stringer“[P]ro se litigants must set [a claim] forth in a manner which, taking the pleaded facts as true, states a claim as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stringer
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.