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← 481 F.3d 187 - No. 05-2361

No. 05-2361’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

101
cited by 101 later decisions
1
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

33 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 496 F. Supp. 2d 477 - Lozano v. City of Hazleton (2007), Culinary Service of Delaware Valley, Inc. v. Borough of Yardley (2010)

33 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Paul v. Davis

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'unsupported conclusions and unwarranted inferences,'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A Rule 12(b)(6) motion will be granted “ ‘if it appears to a certainty that no relief could be granted under any set of facts which could be proved.’ ” Evancho v. Fisher, 423 F.3d 347, 351 (3d Cir.2005) (quoting D.P. Enter. Inc. v. Bucks County Cmty. Coll, 725 F.2d 943 , 944 (3d Cir.1984)). We must accept all factual allegations in [plaintiffs] complaint as true, but we are not compelled to accept “unsupported conclusions and unwarranted inferences,” Schuylkill Energy Res., Inc. v. Pa. Power & Light Co., 113 F.3d 405, 417 (3d Cir.1997), or “a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation,” Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265, 286 , 106 S.Ct. 2932 , 92 L.Ed.2d 209 (1986).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “A defendant in a civil rights action must have personal involvement in the alleged wrongs to be liable, ... and cannot be held responsible for a constitutional violation which he or she neither participated in nor approved....”
    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.