Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1,007 federal appellate · 1,550 district · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,717 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. (2002)
1,007 federal appellate · 1,550 district · 156 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLeatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence & Coordination Unit (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · City of Canton v. Harris
Cited together with Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
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 5,717 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
131 later decisions quote this exact passage“do not require a claimant to set out in detail the facts upon which he bases his claim.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] requirement of greater specificity for particular claims is a result that `must be obtained by the process of amending the Federal Rules, and not by judicial interpretation.'”
31 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.