Rios v. Dillman’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 329 · 1974
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Conley v. Gibson · Edelman v. Jordan · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Reed v. Reed
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Over and over and over — but apparently not enough — [the Fifth Circuit] has stated, explained, reiterated, stressed, rephrased, and emphasized one simple, long-established, well-publicized Rule of Federal Practice: a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim should not be granted unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would not be entitled to recover under any state of facts which could be proved in support of his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A statute that bars all employment has a substantially different effect from one that simply grants an advantage to some otherwise qualified for employment . . . .” [Emphasis in original]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mando v. Beame
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.