Giarratano v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 298 · 2008
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Nemet Chevrolet, Ltd. v. Consumeraffairs.com, Inc. (2009), Simmons v. United Mortgage & Loan Investment, LLC (2011)
22 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Erickson v. Pardus · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unwarranted inferences, unreasonable conclusions, or arguments.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the [nonmoving party].”
9 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.