No. 05-2361’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
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
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.
“'unsupported conclusions and unwarranted inferences,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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“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 dissente.g. Bistrian v. Levi
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.