Lewis v. Chrysler Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 605 · 1972
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Sherman v. British Leyland Motors, Ltd. (1979), Brian Dale Bramlet v. James A. Wilson (1974)
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · Leimer v. State Mut. Life Assur. Co. · Sparks v. England · Control Data Corp. v. International Business Machines Corp. · Daniel F. Kavanaugh, Also Known as Dan Kavanaugh v. Ford Motor Company, a Corporation
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 , 78 S.Ct. 99 , 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957), is the watershed of dismissal-on-the-pleadings decisions. It was there held that ‘[i]n appraising the sufficiency of the complaint . . . the accepted rule [is] that 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.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[t]his rule, which has been stated literally hundreds of times, precludes final dismissal for insufficiency of the complaint except in the extraordinary case where the pleader makes allegations that show on the face of the complaint some insuperable bar to relief.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the watershed of dismissal-on-the-pleadings decisions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.