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487 F.3d 471 · 2007

Citation profile

222
cited by 222 later decisions
5
states following
July 2024
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bassett v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n (2008), Jones v. City of Cincinnati (2008)

16 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions

1840200720102020decided

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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady · Exxon Corporation v. Governor of Maryland Shell Oil Company · Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · Maine v. Taylor

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

  1. “construe the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, accept its allegations as true, and draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff.”
    28 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he defendant has the burden of showing that the plaintiff has failed to state a claim for relief.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “need not accept as true legal conclusions or unwarranted factual inferences.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.