Hall’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Schnelling v. Crawford (In Re James River Coal Co.) (2007), Pender County v. Bartlett (2007)
3 district · 2 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 Baker v. Carr · Papasan v. Allain · Thornburg v. Gingles · Johnson v. De Grandy · White v. Regester
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is not a procedural matter implicating unique issues of patent law, and thus the law of the Federal Circuit is not controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We may properly take judicial notice of [public records] in reviewing the dismissal of the complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) ....”). . Rule 17(c)(2), Fed. R. Civ. P., provides that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We decline to address ... whether the district court erred in dismissing seven of the nine plaintiffs for lack of standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.