Jenkins v. McKeithen’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
504 federal appellate · 653 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,311 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), Warth v. Seldin (1975)
504 federal appellate · 653 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Conley v. Gibson · Baker v. Carr · Pointer v. Texas · Flast v. Cohen · Washington v. Texas
Cited together with Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Warth v. Seldin · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Baker v. Carr
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 3,311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“a function very much akin to making an official adjudication of criminal culpability.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Paul v. Davis · Green v. DeCamp“the material allegations of the complaint are taken as admitted.”
9 later decisions 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.