Steinberg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lawrence v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1987), Ferreira v. Strack (1994)
53 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · DeNardo v. Fairmount Foundries Cranston, Inc. · Ardente v. Horan · Industrial National Bank v. Peloso · Marandola v. Hillcrest Builders, Inc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must review the pleadings, affidavits, admissions, answers to interrogatories, and other appropriate evidence from a perspective most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is 'treated as one for summary judgment when matters outside the pleading are presented to and not excluded by the court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sola v. Leighton
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.