Crews v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2010
12 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 Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger · Robison v. Wichita Falls & North Texas Community Action Corp. · 70 So. 2d 293 - Blackburn v. Brorein · 372 So. 2d 431 - Ison v. Zimmerman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he function of a motion to dismiss a complaint is to raise as a question of law the sufficiency of the facts alleged to state a cause of action, and a court is not permitted to speculate as to whether a plaintiff has any prospect of proving the allegations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a trial court must look only to the four corners of the complaint in deciding a motion to dismiss, and a motion to dismiss may not address factual matters not disclosed by the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court based his dismissal with prejudice on a motion to dismiss that contained affidavits and allegations of facts not contained in the amended petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.