Lane v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.3d 1182 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Smith v. United States (2009), Corder v. Lewis Palmer School District No. 38 (2009)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Erickson v. Pardus · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Weinstein v. Bradford · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]pecific facts are not necessary; the statement need only give the defendant fair notice of what the claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shauf v. Rios
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.