Lipscomb v. Jonsson’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 335 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1990
11 federal appellate ·
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 · Gomillion v. Lightfoot · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Burns v. Richardson · Fortson v. Dorsey
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Finally, we need not consider the complex remedial problems conceivably arising from an ultimate determination in the plaintiffs’ favor. There will be time enough to resolve such problems should they ever actually arise.” ( 459 F.2d at 339 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts . . . which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reyna v. Vowell
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.