Sands v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.3d 263 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Content Extraction & Transmission LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank (2014), Monroe v. Beard (2008)
9 federal appellate · 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · In re Burlington Coat Factory Securities Litigation · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. White Consolidated Industries Inc Ct · Morse v. Lower Merion School District
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n ruling on a motion to dismiss, a district court relies on the complaint, attached exhibits, and matters of public record.” Sands v. McCormick, 502 F.3d 263, 268 (3d Cir.2007). 2 . Among other things, the WCJ found that Donnelly”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] court need not credit a plaintiff's 'bald assertions' or 'legal conclusions' when deciding a motion to dismiss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ajfter Iqbal, when presented with a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, district courts should conduct a two-part analysis. First, the factual and legal elements of a claim should be separated. The District Court .must accept all of the complaint’s well-pleaded facts as true, but may disregard any legal conclusions. Second, a District Court must then determine whether the facts alleged in the complaint are sufficient to show that the plaintiff has a ‘plausible claim for relief.’ In other words, a complaint must do more than allege the plaintiffs entitlement to relief. A complaint has to ‘show1 such an entitlement with its facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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