Brian Dale Bramlet v. James A. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 714 · 1974
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), Bennett v. Berg (1982)
75 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Baker v. Carr · Monroe v. Pape · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] complaint should not be dismissed merely because a plaintiff's allegations do not support the particular legal theory he advances, for the court is under a duty to examine the complaint to determine if the allegations provide for relief on any possible theory.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, as a practical matter, a dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is likely to be granted only in the unusual case in which a plaintiff includes allegations that show on the face of the complaint that there is some insuperable bar to relief.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
2 later decisions 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.