Lawrence I. Weisman on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of James L. Weisman v. Pierre J. Lelandais, Rosemary T. Franciscus v. Pierre J. Lelandais and Sheila C. Weisman’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Acevedo-Villalobos v. Hernandez (1994), Czeremcha v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pierson v. Ray · United States v. Price
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in appraising the sufficiency of the complaint we follow, of course, the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“but whether the claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support the claims. Indeed it may appear on the face of the pleading that a recovery is very remote and unlikely but that is not the test.”
1 later decision 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.